VoterGA Alleges Irregularities in Georgia’s 2022 Primary
Ever since the January 6th hearings, I’ve found myself wondering what VoterGA has been up to. For those who don’t know, VoterGA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization created by citizens working to uphold election integrity (Their “about” section). VoterGA has primarily been responsible for the allegations of widespread election fraud within the state of Georgia. For instance, on November 9, 2021, VoterGA announced that their ballot image analysis team determined that at least 70 counties were unable to produce the original ballot image. You can either watch the press conference here or you can read the press release down below.
Providing that you don’t know what takes place during an election, I’ll summarize it here. So according to Campaign Legal (you can read here), you have four phases of an election. You have the voting, canvas, recount, and certification. Votes can either be done in person or through mail in ballots. VoterGA seems to have an issue with the canvassing phase of the election process, in particular the tabulation of original ballots. Through tabulation, both in-person and mail-in ballots are ran through a scanner which stores a digital copy of the vote. Some scanners can transmit totals to a central election office electronically, but still the central office checks the electronic transmission against the memory drive to determine accuracy.
VoterGA went to the State Election Board with their findings in hopes establishing some form of transparency (will have the letter below). From what I understand, The State Board dismissed cases of ballot harvesting (allegations stemming from 2000 Mules) recently. The State Board did address a case of VoterGA seeking to prove fraudulent vote via analysis of the 147,000 absentee ballots, but it’s unsure about what resulted from it (can read about it here). I’ve noticed that this seems to be common practice when dealing with allegations of potential voter fraud.. It always seems to be labeled as “baseless” and “conspiracy”.
So Why Does This Matter?
There are primarily two reasons why VoterGA and their allegations matter. First being that VoterGA has released a press statement on June 9, 2022 alleging that new hand count shows evidence that Georgia’s voting system may have added 15% to Raffensperger’s totals. Not only does the press release speak about the hand count, but they provide an image where votes was attributed to a candidate that apparently wasn’t on the ballot. These allegations, likely to not be addressed, would be very serious and cause greater scrutiny of Dominion Voting Machines.
The second reason, I believe, for the importance relies on the January 6th hearings. There are several articles that proclaim Trump’s allegations of election fraud were completely false, but for this article I’ll only use one. Most of these articles constitute Trump’s advisors and their advice as evidence. For instance, the hearings from Monday revealed several advisors told Trump that he lost the election and would not win by challenging. Therefore, this constitutes as the first indication of “evidence” that Trump acted corruptly as that seems to be the goal of the hearing. Trump’s advisors saying claims of election fraud was untrue is “evidence” that no fraud occurred in the election. (read here). Even allegations regarding Dominion Voting Machines were dismissed (watch here), but keep in mind VoterGA’s allegations and how no investigation from the state level has occurred.
Do we honestly believe that VoterGA’s allegations will be investigated on the state level or dismissed? It seems apparent that nobody is willing to entertain their findings. Look at the January 6th hearing to know how the federal government views allegations of election fraud. Is it possible that neither the state nor federal government actually cares about election transparency, but rather the power that keeps them in place? Something to think about.
