Peach Tree Times

The Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Elections held a hearing Wednesday to hear testimony on election fraud.

Cathy Latham, the Coffee County Republican Party chair, said during the hearing that they had had nothing but problems in both the June primary and the November general election. She said their scanners were constantly being cleaned and not scanning.

She also said she’d been in several Zoom calls before the general election and the county was promised a new scanner, but the county never received one. 

Another witness, Marci McCarthy, president and CEO of T.E.N., said there were hundreds of ballots that were adjudicated separately without any oversight and they were done on an honor system.

Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, an IT expert, said there were a number of ballots that didn’t have bar codes and many paper ballots were not aligned properly. He said if paper ballots could be looked at, there would be proof about the ballots being counterfeit.

“I do not care how the vote comes down,” Pulitzer said during the hearing. “I do care that it counts right. I do care that it's authentic. Our country was founded on a piece of paper. Our laws and our word came down to us on paper. And all of the sudden we're going to hide the paper and we don't get to look at it? Unacceptable.”

David Cross, a concerned citizen, said he dove into the data of the election. He noticed a sharp jump that he said was impossible in four states, including Georgia. He questioned why if the election was transparent then why can’t citizens see information they have requested.

Cross said during the second ballot recount, he saw bags where absentee ballots were held. He said he noticed there were no locking mechanisms on the bags and there wasn’t a chain of custody with the bags.