Georgia | May 20, 2021
85 Percent of 59,000 Absentee Ballots Placed in Fulton County Drop Boxes in 2020 Election Were Not Transported to Registrar ‘Immediately’ As Georgia State Rule Requires; 5 Percent Were Delivered BEFORE They Were Picked Up
Georgia | May 20, 2021
Eighty-five percent of the more than 59,000 absentee ballots deposited in Fulton County drop box locations during the November 3, 2020 elections for which Fulton County officials have provided chain of custody documentation were not “immediately transported” from the drop boxes to the registrar’s designee as the Emergency Rule of the State Election Board for Absentee Voting requires. Instead, they took more than one hour to be transferred to election officials.
Remarkably, ballot transfer forms provided to The Georgia Star News by Fulton County officials on May 3, 2021–six months after the November 3, 2020 election, indicate that more than five percent of these absentee ballots were signed in as accepted by registrar designees before they were picked up at drop boxes — a physical impossibility suggesting the time data included on those ballot forms is incorrect.
You can see an example of a ballot transfer form in which the registrar’s designee accepted the ballots before they were picked up at the drop box here:..
(Excerpts from the Tennessee Star)