Brad Raffensperger Admits Fulton County Made Mistakes in 2020 Election Count UNREDACTED
"The purpose of her call was apparently to convince me that the SOS has not responsibility for the errors exposed in Fulton County. Mr. Rossi and I believe the SOS has the ultimate responsibility."
Addy Adds | Public Intel Report
August 6, 2022 | The Empire State of the South
Editor’s note: This story is part 2 of an investigative series and a follow-up to the Batches Loaded Report story from the week of Georgia’s 2022 primary election, which can be read here. Addy’s interview can be seen here.
In response to a State Election Board (SEB) complaint made by a Georgia college professor, Ryan Germany, attorney for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, revealed that Fulton County made errors in its audit of the 2020 Presidential Election.
“As part of the allegations that you made, our investigators looked at the alleged violations and found that Fulton did make mistakes in their audit counting/reporting. Those are what have been referred to the AG’s office,” Germany said in a July 29th email response to former PepsiCo. executive and current Georgia technical college professor, Joe Rossi.
On July 15th, Deputy Executive Counsel for Governor Brian Kemp’s office, Evan Meyers, sent a letter to SEB Chairman William S. Duffey that regarded the 2020 presidential election investigation conducted by Rossi and independent investigative journalist and election research analyst, Kevin Moncla.
“I write to inform you that Mr. Joseph Rossi, a Georgia citizen, has brought forth claims regarding the 2020 general election. The Office of the Governor does not have the authority to investigate election matters; such authority resides with the State Elections Board. I ask that you contact Mr. Rossi and review his claims to determine whether any consideration of such claims by the Board is warranted.”
-Evan Meyers, Deputy Executive Counsel to the Office of Governor Brian P. Kemp
Weeks earlier, on July 8th, 2022, Moncla, of Little Elm, Texas, and Rossi, of Perry, Georgia, submitted an official 84-page complaint to the SEB members, a group that includes Matt Mashburn, Jan Johnston, Sara Tindall Ghazal, Edward Lindsey, and Ex officio: Bradley Raffensperger.
Rossi sent an email to Raffensperger on July 24th that requested he put his “election integrity hat on and agree to [the] requested meetings by Senator Larry Walker and Shaw Blackmon (R-Perry) and the Governor’s team.”
Rossi wrote multiple emails to Raffensperger’s office over the course of several days before he finally received a response.
“If your team has time to fly to DC and meet before the Jan 6th committee, you should have time to meet with a citizen of GA that has investigated the Nov 3rd 2020 election, and has been supported by the Governor's team as being factual. I'm confident if we meet, you can save the Governor's office and the SEB a lot of time by answering our questions.”
-Email sent by Joe Rossi to Raffensperger and his Chief Operating Officer (COO) Gabriel Sterling on July 24th.
Rossi, who is a chemical engineer by trade, addressed two irregularities in he and Moncla’s letter to the SEB: the addition of votes to a voting report and missing poll tape tabulator machines.
“Irregularities in the Recount that lead to the addition of 16,382 votes to the ‘Batches Loaded Report’ (BLR) of December 3, 2020 to the ‘certified result’ on December 4, which included 3,125 duplicate ballots and 17,852 votes of unknown provenance,” the letter said.
The second irregularity that the investigative duo inquired about regarded the identification and results from unreported tabulators.
“Additional tabulator results from unreported and unidentifiable tabulators that accounted for 20,713 votes in the November 3rd totals,” the July 8th SEB complaint said.
In a hearing on March 16th at the Gold Dome, State Election Board Chairman Matt Mashburn responded swiftly when Rossi brought up the secretary of state’s office.
“You’re out of order. The Secretary of State is not a respondent to this complaint,” Mashburn said.
When asked by Rossi who decided to remove the secretary of state as a complaint respondent, Mashburn replied, “I did.”
The rationale provided by Mashburn was that Raffensperger’s office was not provided the data before the SEB that day. Rossi responded in turn with the relevant facts of the matter.
“This is a FALSE statement. The following data was in the hands of the Secretary of State’s office well before the March 16th, 2022 hearing,” Rossi said.
Kemp’s November 17th Letter
Kemp’s 42 page report that highlighted all errors.
The excel spreadsheet posted on Raffensperger’s website
Rossi’s summary of the SoS’s Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA) hand audit spreadsheet.
Kemp first addressed the Election Board on November 17, 2021, in a letter in response to Rossi’s analysis that requested the SEB “must act swiftly” to “safeguard the confidence” that Georgians have in their elections.
“The data that exists in public view on the Secretary of State’s website of the RLA report does not inspire confidence. It is sloppy, inconsistent, and presents questions,” Kemp said at the time.
Raffensperger was CC’d on that November 17th, 2021 letter and has yet to make a public statement.
The Office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, to whom Fulton County’s mistakes were referred, also has yet to make a comment.
A few weeks after Kemp’s November 17th letter, Rossi’s investigative partner, Houston County resident and lawyer Jack James, received a call out of the blue from the attorney general.
On December 3rd, 2021, Georgia Assistant Attorney General Charlene McGowan called attorney Jack James’s office at 10:42am and left a message that asked him to call back. He returned her call on Friday around noon and left a message.
She called him back at approximately 1:50pm and they spoke for about 20 minutes.
She introduced herself as an attorney from the Georgia Attorney General’s office, representing the State Elections Board (SEB).
“She wanted to assure me that an investigation would be held on the matter. I said we were concerned about an independent investigation. How can the SOS office investigate itself?” attorney Jack James said.
McGowan’s response was that the investigation would focus on Fulton County, since it is there that the errors occurred.
The Georgia Assistant Attorney General asserted that the secretary of state’s office is not responsible because the County Board of Elections does not report to it.
She went on to tell James that she was unaware if an investigation had begun or if an investigator had been appointed, but that she would contact him back with the information after he requested it.
“The purpose of her call was apparently to convince me that the SOS has no responsibility for the errors exposed in Fulton County. I said Mr. Rossi and I believe the SOS has the ultimate responsibility, thus we disagree on the issue of responsibility.”
-Attorney Jack James
According to OCGA 21-2-50(6), the Georgia Constitution instructs the secretary of state “to receive from the superintendent the returns of primaries and elections and to canvass and compute the votes cast for candidates and upon questions, as required by this chapter.”
Additionally, OCGA 21-2-50(15)(b) characterizes the secretary of state as the “state’s chief election official.”
Citizens from around the Peach State spoke with Public Intel Free Press / Public Intel Report on Friday.
“While Ryan Germany admitted that Fulton County had errors in the hand count audit conducted on November 14th and 15th of 2020, he still has not admitted there were 7 falsified tally sheets that recorded 850 to 0 fake Biden votes, nor has he admitted that all ballot images required to produce the Fulton 2020 election results were electronically altered prior to certification. The cover-up in the SoS office continues.”
- VoterGA co-founder Garland Favorito.
“All law abiding Georgians hope that the GBI, the FBI, Attorney General and the Fulton County DA will be investigating this extraordinary finding,” Buckhead City Committee CEO Bill White said.
“Anyone familiar with Ryan Germany’s 2021 ‘expert’ testimony to the House Special Committee on Election Integrity should see the obvious reasons for carefully inspecting literally everything he says,” Georgia immigration law activist D.A. King said.
“Hopefully Carr does his job this time,” Barrow County GOP Executive Committee Member Laura Petcu told Public Intel.
“For over TWO years people have been called liars, conspiracy theorists and [been] threatened for stating that the 2020 Elections and then the Recount was improperly facilitated in Fulton County. A recent email from Georgia’s Secretary of State Attorney Ryan Germany to Joe Rossi, has now confirmed that the negligence and violations that occurred during the 2020 Elections has in fact been confirmed as TRUE and FACTUAL,” DeKalb County Republican Chairwoman Marci McCarthy said.
“It is no secret that Fulton County has had continual ‘issues’ with delivering election results year after year - this is nothing new, it has been going on for years, if not DECADES. What is more egregious, is that NO ONE is being held accountable for Fulton County’s systemic failure to deliver FITness - faith, Integrity and Trust in elections,” McCarthy said.
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"...NO ONE is being held accountable for Fulton County’s systemic failure to deliver FITness - faith, Integrity and Trust in elections...”, indeed, very true - but exposure and transparency are first steps towards accountability! keep on keeping on, it's very important to see for all that y'all keep doing what you're doing. Addy TQ so much for all the work you do.
I hope this comes to something. Ratsburger needs to be gone and so does Kemp - they are both Rinos with no integrity like most politicians and they are serving an agenda that is ruining the integrity of our elections. I mean this has been going on for decades, thay all know and no one has done anything. Everyone knows about all the fraud and they admit it with impunity knowing nothing ever changes and no one ever gets punished. Thank you for your dilligent reporting on this.