By Mark Mansius and Bill Sargent
The Rasmussen Report regularly polls feelings about election integrity. After the 2020 election the results showed almost half of the voters suspected election improprieties changed the result of the presidential race. Since 2020 that result has only grown and ranges from 60% to 75% of Americans from both parties.
In January, the FBI served a probable cause warrant on the Fulton County (Georgia) Elections Commission. The commission claimed President Trump was seeking revenge for a criminal suit filed against him, brought earlier by district attorney Fanny Willis.
During the FBI raid agents took 656 election boxes while the director of registrations and elections, Nadine Williams, submitted a sworn affidavit stating that there were over 700 boxes. The question is, what happened to the missing boxes?
The judge assigned to the case, released the particulars of the warrant. It contains several self-admitted election improprieties, including:
- Fulton County admitted it doesn’t have scanned images of all of the 528,777 ballots counted during the original count or the 527,925 ballots counted during the recount.
- The County has confirmed some ballots were scanned multiple times during the recount.
- During the risk limiting audit, auditors who counted the votes by hand reported tallies for batches inconsistent with the actual votes recorded within the batch.
- Auditors assisting in the risk limiting audit reported discovering absentee ballots that had never been creased or folded (which would be an impossibility if the ballots had actually been mailed to voters).
- On the day of the deadline to report the recount results, Fulton County reported a recount totaling 511,343 ballots, 17,434 ballots fewer than the number originally counted. The following day, the county reported a total of 527,925 ballots (still 852 ballots short of the original 528,777).
The FBI special agent assigned to the case was a long-time employee with a well-known good reputation. That reputation would be in jeopardy if he were to participate in a hoax or be biased in the conduct of his work.
Jonathan Turley, a highly respected constitutionalist, commented recently that the issuance of a probable cause warrant is unusual when the recount and other reviews that found “nothing.’” But it turns out that the “nothing“ was far from the “truth“.
But the question of election integrity doesn’t end in Fulton County, Georgia. A documented study shows the voting from nursing homes in Wisconsin jumped by tens-of-thousands in 2020. Investigators found unusual activity by voting activist approaching residents, many with limited cognitive ability, in order to pick up and deposited their ballots off at unmanned drop boxes.
A peer reviewed study completed two years later on voting in Wayne County, Michigan and Milwaukee County, Wisconsin had strong evidence of over votes (where more votes were cast than there were registered voters), and ballot box stuffing.
A former Texas head of a white-collar fraud released an actuary study of the 2020 election. When comparing counties, he found a bias of 4% based upon the use of certain voting machines. He claims this bias could have potentially impacted as many as 5 million votes nationwide.
In the Georgia racketeering case against Trump, his attorneys filed a 42-page bulleted list of affidavits supporting claims of impropriety. If proven, it’s likely these improprieties could have changed the 2020 election results.
There are those who claim that no court case has ever proven any of these claims. The truth is that no cases of substance ever made it past procedural efforts by liberal activist and judges; decisions that stopped the introduction of actual evidence. In other words, the cases never went to trial.
In a recent interview, John Solomon, a highly respected investigative reporter, noted “I think Donald Trump is going to change the narrative in America. He is going to do it by revealing some of the things that former FBI officials Chris Ray and Chris Gribes and other officials who were in charge of integrity of our election kept from the public domain. The rumors are that the Trump administration will start revealing some of the intelligence that was kept from the American people. Solomon thinks some big, significant, and very serious revelations about vulnerabilities of elections are about to be unveiled to the American public. He thinks that this revelation will put pressure on senators to act.
If the rumors are true, it could specifically play into the enactment of the save America act in the Senate.
If our nation is to survive, we must have free and fair elections. Let the chips fall where they may… But the integrity of our election system must be protected and ensured.
