Disputed Fact Fulton County conceded in SEB2022-015 proceedings that all 148 advance voting tabulator official returns representing approximately 316,000-320,000 ballots were never formally certified by the county canvassing authority prior to the county submitting those results to the Secretary of State for statewide certification. The State Election Board voted to refer this matter to the […]
Established Fact Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections member Mark Wingate formally and explicitly voted against certifying the 2020 general election results. In a sworn affidavit, Wingate stated that he refused certification because the Board was specifically informed – before the certification vote – that the county had performed no signature verification on over
Established Fact On October 23, 2020 – 11 days before Election Day – a poll worker at the North Fulton Government Service Center reported that one of the computers used for Absentee Ballot Processing had been remotely accessed from somewhere else, with the remote party taking control of the computer and deleting information. This incident
Established Fact On October 23, 2020, a poll worker at the North Fulton Government Service Center reported that one of the computers used for absentee ballot processing was remotely accessed from an unknown location, with the remote party taking control of the computer and deleting information. This incident was documented in an email chain initiated
Established Fact After the discovery of the voting systems failure detailed in Count 1, Logic & Accuracy testing was suspended pending resolution of the problem. After the new software was installed, Fulton County did not perform L&A testing on the voting equipment utilized for Advance Voting. Citations Fulton County 2020 General Election Report for Georgia
Reasonable Inference Dominion Voting Systems personnel, operating under a nearly $2 million on-site staffing contract with Fulton County, were directly involved in programming, testing, and post-election support for the county’s voting equipment, including participation in L&A testing procedures. Official L&A testing conducted by a vendor with a financial interest in the system’s continued deployment cannot
Established Fact Georgia purchased the Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5A voting system that included tabulators with the capacity to authenticate specialized ballot paper. The Georgia Master Solutions Agreement requires counties to use the specialized paper which must be purchased from Dominion Voting Systems. The feature has been disabled on all tabulators across the state since the
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Established Fact On September 30, 2020, the Secretary of State directed county officials to install untested and uncertified software (version 5.5.10.32) written the week before on 34,000 Ballot Marking Devices across the state before it was tested or submitted to the Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”) as required. To be clear- this was not a patch,
Established Fact During the court-ordered machine recount of Fulton County’s 2020 general election results, a failure by county staff to comply with approved technological protocols for backing up and uploading tabulation data caused a server crash on November 29, 2020. This catastrophic configuration failure destroyed the active recount tabulation database entirely, requiring Fulton County to
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Established Fact Georgia’s Master Solution Contract specified 8GB CompactFlash (CF) cards with a 29,000-ballot storage capacity per card. Fulton County instead deployed 4GB CF cards with a stated operational limit of 5,000 ballots – less than one-fifth the contracted capacity. Because these cards reached their informal 3,000-ballot threshold before filling, county personnel swapped memory cards
