re: latest claims that Georgia's 2020 vote was fraudulent. They are highly inaccurate. It's basically like saying that because McDonald's printed your receipt, but didn't hand you the receipt, your order was fraudulent. In the 2020 election, Georgia used Dominion's ballot-marking touchscreen devices. To vote in Georgia in 2020, you had to have been a registered voter. Registered voters went to their assigned voting locations. They checked-in using an "e-pollbook." They showed identification to an election worker to confirm identity matches registered voter. That voter is then "checked-in." The number of check-ins was logged by each e-pollbook. Those check-in logs are still available. To vote, the voter selected his preferences on a touchscreen. When done, the touchscreen printed a paper ballot with voter's choices. The voter confirmed his choices and then took his paper ballot to a scanner (tabulator). The tabulator scans the ballot, saves the results on its internal memory drive, and logs +1 for number of ballots cast. At the beginning of the day, election workers run a "zero report." This "zero report" prints a receipt-like paper that says how many ballots have been tabulated by the scanner. At the end of the day, the election workers run a similar receipt report that says how many ballots the tabulator has tabulated. During early voting, the receipt report from the close of the voting location the night before should match the "zero report" the next morning. At the end of all voting, the memory drives were removed from the scanners/tabulators and then brought to central count for aggregation and results reporting. George election rules -- NOT Georgia state statute -- mandate that those paper receipts and "zero reports" be signed by election workers. Workers in Fulton County produced every single one of those receipts and "zero reports." Those receipts and "zero reports" are still available. They reconcile. What some workers forgot to do, however, was sign the receipts and "zero reports." Now, some people are saying that as a result, all ballots tabulated by those scanners are fraudulent. But this ignores a few things: 1) Those receipts and "zero reports" are still available and they reconcile. 2) Georgia also did reconciliations of the number of check-ins at each voting location with the number of ballots tabulated at each voting location. 3) Georgia did multiple full recounts of all ballots. This would have revealed if any scanner/tabulator double counted any ballots. They did not. 4) None of the current allegations prove a single fraudulent check-in or ballot scan. Accordingly, it is silly to think that a CLERICAL OVERSIGHT somehow invalidates the reconciled ballots of 300,000+ ballots. This of course would never hold up in a court of law. But it is popular on Twitter! A few more tidbits: 1) I'll remind people that the November 2020 election was during the pandemic. This made it harder to train poll workers in-person, and it meant lots of normal poll workers chose to not worker, and jurisdictions had to recruit newbies. This perhaps makes the clerical mistake a bit easier to understand. 2) Not a single current or past certified election official is cited in the original publication of this story (at The Federalist), despite the fact that there are thousands of such people. That's because this is not a big deal, and no election worker would ever endorse this as somehow fraudulent. It likely happens in lots of jurisdictions (clerical errors), but Fulton County was chosen, likely for political reasons. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy Sunday! I'm currently in a close fantasy football matchup in my league's semi-finals, so I needed this distraction from constantly checking the score. Thanks! Stephen

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