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Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is calling for the elimination of computer codes on paper ballots and independent oversight of the secretary of state's office.
"We know that 2024 will once again be a pivotal election, and Georgia will again be the political epicenter of the nation," Burns, a Republican from Newington, said Wednesday during the annual Eggs & Issues breakfast sponsored by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. "It is therefore critical that we do everything in our power to continue safeguarding our elections, increasing transparency and building on our efforts to increase voter participation at every turn."
Burns' election-year proposals follow complaints from conservative voters and election security advocates who say Georgia's voting technology isn't trustworthy. His support could result in bills changing Georgia's voting laws during the annual legislative session of the General Assembly that began this week. A federal trial in Atlanta that began Tuesday is also questioning the security of the voting system.
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"We are going to strengthen the security of our ballots by moving away from the QR code which many voters find confusing and toward visible watermarks on security paper to denote voter selections," Burns said.
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Speaker Burns also went on to criticize the State Election Board's intermingled relationship with the Secretary of State. Last month, the Board came under tremendous scrutiny after it removed a significant complaint from it's docket that alleged tens of thousands of votes could not be validated. Almost identical arguments were made in filings for the Curling v Raffensperger case by UC Berkeley Professor Philip Stark.
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Additionally, during that same hearing, the State Election Board voted against investigating the Secretary of State over the wildly inaccurate hand recount that has not yet been explained or remedied by the state's top election official despite confirmation of the discrepancy by the Governor's office and a consent decree entered between the State Election Board and Fulton County.
The State Election Board has gone through a rousing game of musical chairs over the last year at the chairman's seat. After former federal judge William Duffey stepped down in August, Matt Mashburn replaced him as the acting chair and presided over the December 19th hearing that removed the damning SEB 2023-025 from the docket.
Now the board is being headed by Waffle House vice-president John Fervier. Fervier does not have any known experience in elections but, according to the AP, he "oversees insurance, risk management, workers' compensation and security" for the nation-wide restaurant chain that is based in Norcross, Georgia.
Looks like Georgia taking 1 big step closer towards the truth about the 2020 election
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) January 13, 2024
Over a dozen state Senators have sponsored and filed a bill to remove corrupt Sec. of State Brad Raffesberger from the State Election Board
These Senators will then investigate his involvement… https://t.co/x3wFG4bL9C
Georgia Update: "(election officials) were told that Fulton County did not perform any signature verification on any absentee-by-mail ballot in the 2020 election" - and - "(election officials were) never provided chain of custody documents that (they) requested"
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) March 3, 2024
- Ex Georgia… https://t.co/vN2qCUsgP9 pic.twitter.com/lDX6jV0scl
Several people need to be thoroughly investigated, including all their and their immediate families financial records.aggiehawg said:
Curling v. Raffensperger trial has started. The QR Code problem is in the news again.LINKQuote:
Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns is calling for the elimination of computer codes on paper ballots and independent oversight of the secretary of state's office.
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FTR: Dominion had software available that would have removed the QR Code issue available in October 2020. Raffensperger refused and continues to refuse to imstall it. Why?
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ATLANTA, GA, FEBRUARY 21, 2024 Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced yesterday that he is seeking more taxpayer funds from the Georgia legislature to implement an "audit" for Georgia's controversial QR coded Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting system.
However, the proposed "audit" would not count any ballots marked and cast by voters in any election but instead, count only electronic ballot images produced by the Dominion voting system.
Ballot images are not usable for auditing because they are vulnerable to hacking and malware. Two of Dr. Alex Halderman's students at the University of Michigan demonstrated one type of hack during a Defense Readiness Condition (DEF CON) conference conducted in Las Vegas during August of 2019.
They showed an audience how malware can permanently flip votes on a ballot image and explained that once altered, "…Image audits would offer zero security whatsoever and be effectively useless". At March 7, 2022 press conference,
VoterGA presented a study showing Fulton County 2020 mail-in ballot images were electronically altered before results were certified. Image meta data indicates there was a wholesale replacement of scanned mail-in ballot images after ballots were scanned but before the results were tabulated. Over 132,000 of the 148,000 images were also missing their (.SHA) hash authentication files
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Georgia officials including Raffensperger were previously criticized for a false Risk Limited Audit (RLA) process. Dr. Phillip Stark, inventor of the RLA process, wrote to Georgia officials in 2019 to say his process is meaningless when used with Ballot Marking Device (BMD) systems like the one Georgia uses. He stated that opinion again in the recent Curling v. Raffensperger case. In that trial, the Secretary's own expert witness admitted an RLA cannot audit what a BMD displays to the voter. Observers believe that the court will find parts or all of the Dominion BMD system to be constitutionally deficient. The Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 system was rejected by Secretaries of State in Texas and Tennessee without court action.
When a ballot is scanned a .TIF format ballot image is created. The image is then analyzed to create a cast vote record that contains all votes on the ballot. Those votes are tabulated to produce results for certification. Current Senate Bill 122 and House Bill 426 seek to improve security and transparency in the balloting process by making the actual physical ballots subject to Open Records Requests after results certification. VoterGA is requesting all Georgia voters contact the offices of House Speaker Jon Burns' [404 656-5020], Lt Gov. Burt Jones [404 656-5030], and Gov. Brian Kemp [404 656-1776] to request passage of SB122 or HB426 during this session to help secure the 2024 General Election
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Now [the State Election Board] is being headed by Waffle House vice-president John Fervier.
Fervier does not have any known experience in elections but, according to the AP, he "oversees insurance, risk management, workers' compensation and security" for the nation-wide restaurant chain that is based in Norcross, Georgia.
An Open Letter to @GeoffDuncanGA
— Josh McKoon 🇺🇸 🇹🇼 🇮🇱 (@JoshMcKoon) August 2, 2024
August 2, 2024
Dear Mr. Duncan:
In a life otherwise devoid of accomplishment (e.g. dropping out of college, failing as a minor league baseball player, starting a series of sketchy businesses), your nominations by the Republican Party were…
Ok let’s settle a few things right now:
— Josh McKoon 🇺🇸 🇹🇼 🇮🇱 (@JoshMcKoon) July 16, 2024
1. On Tuesday July 9, 2024 the State Elections Board came to order with a quorum to do business and proceeded to work through its published agenda, with the Chairman allowing unlimited public comment, seemingly as a way to delay getting…
🚨 BOOMS in Georgia! Happening Now..
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) August 7, 2024
“Georgia owes President Donald Trump an Apology” — Ballots were Tabulated Twice & Counted Twice and we now Know it was NOT Done Accidentally
Joseph Rossi:
“You can’t leave Walmart without showing a receipt, but for some reason you can count… pic.twitter.com/aDNeWlojIF
BREAKING!🚨🚨 GA State Election Board member Dr. Janice Johnston says @GaSecofState’s office has repeatedly DENIED her access to communication app with all GA election workers!
— True the Vote (@TrueTheVote) August 6, 2024
“I am excluded from observing communications between the SOS and all the election workers in the… pic.twitter.com/ckhmz1QZ36
Raff's main henchman is Gabe Sterling. Remember Sterling quit the SoS office to become a paid consultant (at a significant salary increase) for the 2020 election. As such, he was beyond GA's open record laws and could refuse to comply with those requests for his communications.Funky Winkerbean said:
And that's why Trump has targeted Raffensperger in his tweets.
BREAKING: The Georgia State Election Board just voted 3-2 to override the decision of RINO Chairman John Fervier to authorize the reopening of the investigation into the 17,000 missing ballot images & over 3,000 duplicate votes counted in the 2020 election in Fulton County… pic.twitter.com/f6SZPlvLE2
— George (@BehizyTweets) August 7, 2024
Yeah well we'll see if Kemp intervenes. My guess is he will because he can't have the truth coming out now.aggiejayrod said:
That was really poorly worded. The board voted to authorize reopening the investigation. Fervier originally denied reopening the investigation.
HOLY SH*T 🚨 WE WERE RIGHT AGAIN, TRUMP WON GEORGIA BY A LANDSLIDE https://t.co/GlDo9pr76q
— Marjorie Taylor Greene Press Release (Parody) (@MTGrepp) August 7, 2024
BREAKING: Georgia State election board has voted to request that state AG Chris Carr reopen an investigation into Fulton County's counting of the results of the 2020 election.
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) August 8, 2024