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Five years after the fact, Georgia election officials have admitted that 315,000 votes in the 2020 presidential election lacked the necessary signature from poll workers and should not have been counted. President Donald Trump was unjustly indicted for alleging just such a violation of election security.
A bombshell report out last week in The Federalist from journalist Brianna Lyman provides all the details on what should be considered one of the biggest election-related scandals in American history. As she relays, election officials in Fulton County, Georgia, the most populous in the state, admitted to failing “to sign off on the vote tabulation ‘tapes’ critical to the certification process.”
The revelation came thanks to the tireless efforts of David Cross, a local election integrity activist who filed a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board in 2022.
In the 2020 election, Georgia state law required two basic steps to ensure ballots were counted fairly and accurately. First, at the beginning of each day of voting, poll workers must print and sign a “zero tape,” which shows that every voting machine is starting at zero votes. Second, poll workers must print three “closing tapes” at the end of each day and either sign them or provide a reason for refusal.
But according to Cross’s investigation, an astonishing 36 out of 37 early voting locations in Fulton County failed to sign the closing tapes. Thirty-two polling sites also failed to sign their zero tapes.
As Lyman explains:
“If there is no record of whether the tabulator was set at zero at the start of polling, there is no way of telling whether ballots from a previous election (or ballots from a test run) were left on the memory card and might later be counted. Notably, this happened in Montana, where officials discovered more votes than were cast and believe the votes were leftover sample data that had not been cleared.”
In some cases, the tapes also showed “additional irregularities,” such as polling locations open as late as 2 a.m. and “duplicated scanner serial numbers, where memory devices were removed from one scanner and printed on an alternate scanner.”
In total, at least 315,000 early votes in Fulton County did not have poll worker signatures attached to them and were thus uncertified. “Because no tape was ever legally certified, Fulton County had no lawful authority to certify its advanced voting results to the secretary of state. Yet it did,” Cross told Lyman. “And [Georgia Secretary of State] Raffensperger accepted and folded those uncertified numbers into Georgia’s official total without questioning them. This is not partisan. This is statutory. This is the law.”
This jaw-dropping failure on the part of election officials should raise serious concerns about what other such “irregularities” have occurred – and perhaps still are occurring – in Georgia and elsewhere. But it is also a vindication of President Donald Trump and every other “election conspiracy theorist” who has alleged precisely this sort of misconduct from 2020 onward.
When Trump was indicted in Georgia in 2023 (along with 18 other co-defendants), the charges centered on his supposed efforts to “pressure” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to investigate precisely these sorts of irregularities and violations of the law. At the time, media and Democrats hailed Raffensperger as a hero for insisting that everything was on the up-and-up. Now, it looks like Trump and the “conspiracy theorists” were right – again.
It’s worth remembering the hysteria with which the liberal establishment defended the election procedures in Georgia and Fulton County that we now know to be riddled with errors and inconsistencies. For years, anyone who remotely questioned how early voting was conducted in Georgia was castigated as a “threat to democracy.” Democrat prosecutors were literally trying to throw a former (and, as it turns out, future) president in prison for questioning the legitimacy of the results.
Meanwhile, the co-defendants in the case had to come up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Many of them were financially ruined. Where is their restitution? Where is their apology from the liberal media hounds that destroyed their reputations and their lives?
Critics will counter that the state performed a recount where every ballot was counted by hand, ensuring the results were accurate. But if we can’t even trust Georgia poll workers and election officials to properly sign closing and zero tapes, how can we trust them to conduct an accurate recount? Moreover, the fact remains that the tapes were not signed. According to the letter of the law in Georgia, they should not have been counted.
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/conspiracy-theorists-right-again-on-2020-georgia-election-irregularities/
A series of tax documents have revealed that Rewiring America, a climate group that Democratic activist Stacey Abrams served as senior counsel for, banked over $5 million in federal climate funding just before President Donald Trump slashed the grant, which came into existence during former President Joe Biden’s administration, earlier in the year. The documentation indicates that Abrams played a much bigger part in getting the grant than she previously claimed.
The $5 million was the first portion of what ultimately ended up being a $2 billion grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency in April 2024 to a group called Power Forward Communities, which oversees a coalition led by Abram’s group. The grant was canceled by EPA administrator Lee Zeldin after reports came out revealing Abrams’s connection to Power Forward Communities.
The freshly reviewed tax documents reveal that out of the $9.5 million PFC received from the EPA by the end of last year, over half of it was sent to Rewiring America (RA). PFC stated in documents that this grant was the only source of revenue it had for 2024. This means that PFC acted as a pass-through to send taxpayer funding to RA. The disbursement was sent to the organization while Abrams served as the group’s senior counsel and senior adviser.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, Rewiring America’s director of partnerships, Ian Magruder, stated that Abrams “played a pivotal role” in getting the EPA grant. However, PFC said its relationship with Rewiring America, and by extension, Abrams, differently when it filed a lawsuit against Zeldin for canceling the grant.
“Power Forward Communities has no relationship with Ms. Abrams, other than the fact that she’s one of the people who have advised one of our coalition members in the past,” Power Forward Communities CEO Timothy Mayopoulos said. In the lawsuit that challenged the grant’s cancellation, PFC claimed its relationship with Abrams was “alleged.”
Zeldin, however, says that the newly filed tax forms show that the decision by the Biden administration to give the massive grant to PFC was politically motivated. “This revelation is the latest egregious example (on top of so many we’ve found) of how, in rushing $20 billion out the door before President Trump took office, the Biden EPA doled out hard-earned tax dollars to unqualified recipients riddled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, while intentionally reducing agency oversight,” Zeldin said to the Free Beacon in a statement.
https://theamericantribune.com/stacey-abrams-led-climate-group-caught-pocketing-5-million-of-2-billion-biden-grant-before-trump-axed-it/
(The Epoch Times)—Fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft that violated restricted airspace over President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 21, military officials said.
The aircraft entered restricted airspace at about 9:20 a.m., prompting an F-16 fighter jet to conduct what is called a “headbutt maneuver,” in which the jet flies directly in front of a civilian plane to get the pilot’s attention, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a news release.
NORAD, which oversees the airspace of the United States and Canada, did not specify the type of aircraft involved or its point of origin or destination.
Temporary flight restrictions went into effect at 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 19 ahead of Trump’s arrival in Palm Beach later that night for his annual Christmas and New Year’s visit to Mar-a-Lago. The restrictions, issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), are set to remain in place until 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2026.
Under the restrictions, most flights are prohibited within a 10-nautical-mile radius, or about 12 miles, around Mar-a-Lago. A larger outer ring extending to 30 nautical miles, or roughly 35 miles, allows more limited aircraft movement, according to the FAA.
When an aircraft violates the restricted airspace, air traffic controllers would try to contact the pilot and instruct them to exit the area. If the pilot does not respond, NORAD may dispatch fighter jets to intercept the aircraft. Intercepting pilots may fly alongside the plane, tip their wings, release flares, or perform other maneuvers to attract the pilot’s attention.
Pilots who violate temporary flight restrictions may face penalties ranging from warnings and fines to suspension or revocation of their pilot certificates, the FAA said.
https://thelibertydaily.com/military-jet-performs-headbutt-plane-intruding-mar-lago/
please pray for the safety of President Trump, Melania, and their family
Mark 11:24
New International Version
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%2011%3A24&version=NIV
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