In a shocking revelation, Fulton County, Georgia, was proven to be the center of a massive 2020 voter fraud scheme. In a less “shocking” revelation, Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr said his department would not investigate the fraud. 

In May, the Georgia State Election Board found that Fulton County broke election laws several times during the 2020 election.  

In 2022, a complaint was filed stating that there were 3,125 duplicate ballots and 17,852 votes for which no physical ballot could be found. The SEB panel later confirmed that Fulton County had double-scanned 3,075 ballots. 

The complaint also claimed that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told Fulton County’s election supervisor to fix their vote totals because they had reported 511,543 votes. That was fewer than the original count from Election Night, which was 528,777. 

The complaint also indicates the results were 17,234 votes lower than reported on Election Night. By the time the results were certified on December 4, 2020, Fulton County had “found” 16,382 votes, almost all of the missing ballots. 

During the 2020 presidential election, in which Donald Trump lost Georgia by just 11,779 votes, the SEB found that Fulton County had double-scanned thousands of ballots. The Georgia secretary of state’s office couldn’t confirm if these double-scanned ballots were counted twice, but investigators say they were because they showed up in the cast vote record. 

At the SEB’s May meeting, SEB member Janice Johnston mentioned that 380,761 ballot images from the Election Day machine count were “unavailable.” 

The SEB decided that Fulton County broke election laws during the 2020 election and needed an independent monitor to oversee its elections. However, the board did not refer the case to the attorney general for further investigation. 

In 2023, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that during the 2020 presidential election audit in Fulton County, election workers made “mistakes” by “mistyping vote totals” or giving votes to the wrong candidate. 

Carr announced on August 1 that the state would investigate specific claims of voter fraud. However, early last week, Carr said his office would not investigate further. 

A spokeswoman for Carr’s office said the SEB tried to make the Attorney General’s Office look into issues that had “already been investigated and decided.” According to the Constitution and laws, the SEB can’t reopen a resolved investigation. 

In a letter to SEB Chairman John Fervier, Carr said that the SEB doesn’t have the power to tell the Attorney General to investigate the issue.  

The letter also points out that state law says the SEB can investigate issues or ask the secretary of state to investigate and then report any problems to the Attorney General for further investigation and legal action. 

Election integrity activists and local Republicans, including Marci McCarthy, the chairwoman of the DeKalb County Republican Party, criticized the attorney general’s decision not to investigate Fulton County. In a statement to The Federalist, she called Carr’s decision “disingenuous.” 

McCarthy said that Carr’s position is misleading, especially since he had just announced on August 1 that he was willing to investigate the rampant claims of voter fraud. She added that, with new evidence about how Fulton County handled the 2020 presidential recount, his refusal to act harms the state’s trust in its election system. 

In July, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections approved a plan for an independent team to monitor their elections. Earlier this month, the SEB reviewed proposals for these monitors. One proposal included people overseeing Georgia’s 2020 election, like Ryan Germany, the general counsel for Raffensperger’s office during that time. 

After years of Democrats crying “conspiracy” over allegations of fraud, it seems Georgia is setting itself up for a new round of voter “irregularities” in 2024. There’s nothing to see here, folks; move along.