An investigation by the Georgia State Election Board has brought to light that Fulton County breached election regulations in the 2020 election. The county failed to ensure poll workers signed the required tabulation tapes for early votes in 36 out of 37 advanced voting precincts, impacting approximately 315,000 ballots.

This oversight resulted in a breach of the chain-of-custody and certification requirements as outlined by Georgia law. These laws stipulate that signed tapes are the only legally acceptable evidence of genuine vote totals.

During a board meeting held on December 9th, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, acknowledged the county’s error. She stated that Fulton County does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.”

The revelation casts a shadow on what was labeled as the “most secure” and “most audited” election. Despite these concerns, Brumbaugh reassured that Fulton County has since amended its processes and procedures.

“It was a violation of the rule. Since 2020, we have had new leadership, a new building, a new board, and new standard operating procedures. Our training has been enhanced,” Brumbaugh explained, emphasizing the improvements made.

“We don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election,” she affirmed, highlighting the county’s acknowledgment of past mistakes while underscoring their commitment to rectify them moving forward.

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David Cross, a local election integrity activist, made that allegation. He filed a formal challenge with the Georgia State Election Board in March 2022, alleging that Fulton County illegally counted around 315,000 early votes in the 2020 election without required poll worker signatures on tabulator tapes. He spoke at the hearing, telling the state election board of the irregularities he discovered.

“These signed tapes are the sole legal certification that the reported totals are authentic,” Cross said. “Fulton County produced zero signed tabulator tapes in early voting.”

“These are not clerical errors. They are catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and certification,” he continued.

“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 added. “And Secretary 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.”

“When the law demands three signatures on tabulator tapes and the county fails to follow the rules, those 315,000 votes are, by definition, uncertified.”

Massive scandal:

Fulton County admits they “violated” the rules in 2020 when they certified ≈315K early votes that lacked poll workers’ signatures

“We don’t dispute the allegation.”

The SOS also found FC “violated Official Election… Processes”https://t.co/Gy9pgnbT8E

— Brianna Lyman (@briannalyman2) December 18, 2025

315,000 uncertified votes sure seem like a significant issue. For years after the 2020 election, we were told any questioning of the results in the “most secure election in history” was tantamount to a clear and present threat to democracy itself.

One guy, in particular, almost went to prison for questioning the integrity of the election that saw Joe Biden, the least-energizing political candidate to ever run for the White House, somehow churn out 81,000,000 or so votes.

As David Strom at Hot Air writes, “I seem to recall that President Trump was being prosecuted for making claims about the voting process in Georgia, and that the whole ‘election denial’ narrative that Democrats have slandered Trump with was based on his ‘lies’ that have turned out, unsurprisingly, to be true.”

Brumbaugh’s throwaway admission seemingly exposes serious flaws in the narrative that the 2020 election was secure.

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