Dem-run Fulton County admits "ballot tapes" for 315,000 votes in 2020 without required poll workers’ signatures were still counted

--The Federalist, December 17, 2025 

Georgia law requires that to be certified as valid, every scanner "tabulator tape" must be signed by three election workers.  If that's not done, state law says the votes on those tapes can't be certified.

In March of 2022 a man pushing for honest elections sued the state election board, claiming scanner tapes for 36 "early voting" locations in heavily-Democrat Fulton County weren't signed by anyone.  The county election board tried every legal dodge possible, but finally a hearing was held:

Ten days ago (Dec. 9) Fulton County officials finally admitted that tapes counting approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election didn't have the required signatures--but were still certified.

For clueless Americans: Georgia's corrupt Secretary of State officially declared Democrat Joe bribem to have "won" the state by about 13,000 votes. 

The admission by Fulton County officials came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB), following a legal challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. 

An attorney for the Fulton County Board of Elections finally admitted that 36 totalizer tapes showing 315,000 votes weren't signed by even one poll worker, as required, and thus shouldn't have been legally certified--but were.

The attorney told the state board that "the county does not dispute that the tapes were not signed,”and that this was a violation of the law. 

Democrats immediately bleated that even though the tapes lacked the signatures needed to have them be legally certified, the law was merely a "technicality" and that Fulton County DA Fani Willis assured the board they could count all ballots if marked for Biden. 

Even higher up the chain, the office of Georgia’s Secretary of State--the position charged with ensuring election integrity--investigated the lack of signatures and “substantiated” the findings that Fulton County “violated official processes" when it certified the votes on the 36 unsigned tapes.

The Secretary of State's office also found that that officials at 32 polling sites failed to verify tapes that showed vote totals were at zero before voting started.

Georgia law requires poll workers to begin each day of ballot scanning by printing out and signing a “zero tape” showing that voting machines are starting with no votes on their counters.

If there is no record of whether the tabulator was set at zero at the start of polling, there is no way of telling whether ballots from a previous election or from a test run were still on the memory card, meaning they'd be counted.  This was proven to have happened in Montana, where officials discovered more votes were counted by the scanners than were cast.  

Activist David Cross spent almost $16,000 to obtain 77 megabytes of election records from Fulton County through an open records request.  A painstaking review revealed the unsigned tabulator tapes representing 315,000 votes.  Each signature block on these tapes was blank, Cross said.

Cross also highlighted additional irregularities, such as polling locations being open at “impossibly late hours, like 2:09 a.m.” Cross also said that he found “duplicated scanner serial numbers, where the memory devices were removed from one scanner and printed on an alternate scanner.”

“These are not clerical errors. They are catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and certification,” Cross said.  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 that “Secretary Raffensperger accepted those uncertified numbers and added them in to Georgia’s official total without questioning them."

Kevin Moncla, an election integrity activist who has been at the forefront of these challenges, estimates the real number of illegally certified votes is likely higher than 315,000.

Cross admitted that backing out 315,000 illegally certified ballots--90% of which were for bribem--obviously wouldn't undo bribem's ghastly presidency, but said it was important that the record reflect the illegality.

The Federalist inquired with the Georgia Secretary of State’s office as to who was responsible for accepting Fulton County’s tabulator tapes despite there being no signatures at all.  No one from that office responded.