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May 15, 2024, 7:48 AM

The Georgia State Election Board voted 2-1 on Tuesday to send a Letter of Reprimand to Fulton County for numerous violations of state law during the 2020 election and recount and direct the establishment of a monitor for the November 2024 general election, which, if not completed by July, would require referral to the Georgia Attorney General.

State Election Board (SEB) Member Edward Lindsey proposed the Letter of Reprimand due to the “clear evidence that in 2020 there were numerous violations of regulations and statutes” in Fulton County.

Calling the election conduct “unacceptable,” SEB Member Dr. Janice Johnston highlighted specific cases of violations to Georgia Secretary of State investigators, including Election Day problems regarding the security and documentation of the votes and their authenticity, particularly from advanced voting locations and ballot boxes.

According to Johnston, creating and retaining ballot images became mandatory as of February 2020, yet Fulton County purportedly failed to maintain 380,000 ballot images from the November election.

She explained that the recount, which showed “more than 16,000 electronically added votes,” did not remove those votes, prompting the SEB member to call for further investigation.

Johnston also cited a case involving advanced voting scanners that did not provide the documentation to confirm that “the votes attributed to the ten scanners were authentic” and that Fulton County allegedly disrupted the required audit trail to validate the legitimacy of the votes.

“If this is the way to conduct an election,” she commented, “then no election should be certified as true and accurate.”

She added, “And there’s no way that this election or recount should have been certified.”

https://georgiastarnews.com/news/unacceptable-georgia-state-election-board-votes-to-reprimand-fulton-county-for-violations-during-2020-election-and-recount-establish-monitor-for-2024/dmcclure/2024/05/09/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home

You only need to be able to cheat well in a key county or two in 5 or 6 swing states to steal a close election.

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Yup. The so-called "firehose of falsity."

The solution to all this deliberate flood of disinformation, though, is pretty much the same as it was with the rest of the Internet - treat anything from unverified or known disinformation sites as spam, and filter it right out.

The fallacy a lot of us are indulging in is the "reasonableness fallacy". The disinformers keep presenting us with dog turds and insisting there are actually diamonds inside, if only we root through it...and they act like it's our duty to root through it if we're reasonable. Meet us halfway, they say.

To which I say: $^$# no. We know what, say, Jack Posobiec is about; he's the one who invented that whole vicious Pizzagate conspiracy theory that almost got Comet Ping-Pong Pizza in DC shot up by a thoroughly confused Marine who was convinced the pedos had kids locked in their basement. Who then discovered, after shooting the locks off closets and holding everyone at gunpoint for hours and tearing the building apart, that there was in fact...no basement. Oops.

Why on Earth would anyone ever listen to a thing Posobiec again? But he's still spouting vicious lies to this very day. In my head, I just go: click. I genuinely do not care what the man says about anything ever again, he's shown his colors and his credibility is burned. Ditto for, say, ZeroHedge, which was exposed in freaking 2016 as a Russian disinformation site based out of Bulgaria that was run by the oligarchs' money launderers...but the MAGA's keep posting dog turds straight from ZeroHedge to this very day.

Why do we indulge this crap? At some point, just apply your filters and turn it off. If somebody won't adhere to minimum journalistic standards, there's just no point in ever listening to them again. And while AI also makes it far, far easier to generate mass amounts of pure bullsh!t, AI also makes it possible to identify it and tune it right out. Which is exactly what's going to happen on a mass scale...the same way the world tired of telemarketers and found legal and technological ways to block them.

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Oh no! A sternly-worded letter!***

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This can mean only one thing.

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So

So are they lying?

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Right?

I think the fact is that no one knows what to trust so generally just

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Truth... that elusive element of the self-annointed Fact Checkers. "Misdeeds"?***

Didn't fit narrative... Dismiss. Oh, and you're a 'conspiracy theorist'.***

Bend over, stick your head between your legs, and FACT CHECK your axx.

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You spent time arguing against nothing, eh...? Makes sense.***

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Seriously, who knows if it's true? Somebody on the SEB is alleging this.

"Numerous violations of state law."

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