Peach Tree Times

A voters’ group amended its lawsuit over ballots cast in Fulton County for the November 2020 general election to allege on Tuesday, July 13 that an examination of mail-in ballot images show a hand count audit was “riddled with massive errors and provable fraud.”

The error reporting rate in Fulton’s hand count audit was 60%, Garland Favorito, co-founder of VoterGA and one of the plaintiffs seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, said during a news conference in Roswell on July 13.

A VoterGA data team analysis showed that 923 of 1,539 mail-in ballot batch files contained votes that allegedly were incorrectly reported in Fulton’s official results,VoterGA said in its news release.

“These inaccuracies are due to discrepancies in votes for Donald Trump, Joe Biden and total votes cast compared to their reported audit totals for respective batches,” Favorito said during the news conference in Roswell.

Favorito said that errors in the reporting occurred on both sides but that overall the discrepancies favored Biden.

“There’s a tally sheet that showed 100-0 nothing for Joe Biden,” he said. “But at look at the actual result shows something completely different.”

The VoterGA statement said that the discrepancies couldn't be blamed on errors alone.

“The VoterGA team found seven falsified audit tally sheets containing fabricated vote totals for their respective batches," the organization said in its release. "For example, a batch containing 59 actual ballot images for Joe Biden, 42 for Donald Trump and 0 for Jo Jorgenson (Libertarian candidate for president) was reported as 100 for Biden and 0 for Trump."

Seven batches of ballot images that showed  554 votes for Joe Biden, 140 votes for Donald Trump and 11 votes for Jo Jorgenson also had tally sheets in the audit falsified, VoterGA said. Changes showed 850 votes for Biden, 0 votes for Trump and 0 votes for Jorgenson.

Financial adviser David Cross, who led VoterGA’s review of the ballot images, said during the news conference that “what we have here is garbage” when referring to the hand count audit of the county results finished in mid-November.

“There is no question that some ballots were counted twice,” he said. “What we need is a full-blown audit.”

VoterGA also alleged its data team found more than 200 mail-in ballot images for Fulton County that had votes not included in the hand count audit results.

“All these anomalies are now included in the Fulton County ballot inspection lawsuit as additional counts of how the Equal Protection and Due Process Constitutional rights of Georgia voters were violated,” VoterGa said in its release..

Northwest Georgia News said that any forensic audit done in Georgia at this point in time would not change the outcome or any election results.