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January 2021 Newsletter

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Georgia: Summary of Testimony from December 3, 2020 Hearing

Standing Senate Judiciary Committee Election Law Study Subcommittee Report
By Honorable William T. Ligon, Chairman, December 17, 2020

Six Georgia senators released a 15-page report of their December 3, 2020 hearing about irregularities in Georgia’s November General Election. They studied election law, the recount and audit processes, investigations, litigation, and issues related to the January 5, 2021 runoffs.

Subcommittee Findings
1. The November 3, 2020 election was chaotic and the results cannot be trusted.
2. The Secretary of State (SOS) and the State Elections Board (SEB) failed to enforce the law as written in the Georgia Code, and furthermore, created policies that contravened State law. As Senator Matt Brass concluded in the December 3 hearing, “We have heard evidence that State law was not followed time after time after time.”
3. The SOS failed to have a transparent process for the verification of signatures for absentee ballots, for the counting of votes during the subsequent recount and audit, and for providing the type of guidance and enforcement necessary to ensure that monitors and other observers had meaningful access to the process.
4. The SOS instituted an unconstitutional gag order so that monitors were told not to use photography or video recording devices during the recount.
5. Election officials at all levels failed to secure test ballots and actual ballots. Many reports indicate that proper procedures were not followed, and there was systematic failure to maintain appropriate records of the chain of custody for these ballots, both prior to and after voting and throughout the recount.
6. The SOS and Election Supervisors failed to stop hostile behavior of workers toward citizen volunteer monitors during the recount process.
7. The events at the State Farm Arena are particularly disturbing because they demonstrated intent on the part of election workers to exclude the public from viewing the counting of ballots, an intentional disregard for the law. The number of votes that could have been counted in that length of time was sufficient to change the results of the presidential election and the senatorial contests. Furthermore, there appears to be coordinated illegal activities by election workers themselves who purposely placed fraudulent ballots into the final election totals.
8. Grants from private sources provided financial incentives to county officials and exerted influence over the election process.
9. Oral testimonies of witnesses on December 3, 2020, and subsequently, written testimonies submitted by many others, provide ample evidence that the 2020 Georgia General Election was so compromised by systemic irregularities and voter fraud that it should not be certified.

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CORRECTION: February 16th Commentary

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H.B. 652, Un-Accounted-For Voters
February 21, 2018

On February 16th I wrote about H.B. 652, and applied its contents to the Electoral College. Although everything I said about the Electoral College is accurate, the bill is not about the Electoral College.  It’s about Georgia voters in primaries and elections.

If the subject of the bill had been the Electoral College, it would have affected only 18 electors.  But, as it is written, it would repeal the law requiring the Secretary of State to find voters who have not up-dated their voter registration card when their names or addresses changed.

Current law requires the Secretary of State, during the first six months of odd-numbered years, to identify voters with whom there has been no contact during the preceding three calendar years, if they are not on a change-of-address list.

H.B. 652 would repeal that current law.  Therefore, H.B. 652 should be defeated, so the Secretary of State can continue locating voters and confirming their information long before Election Day.

H.B. 652 is much more far-reaching than it would have been had it targeted only the 18 electors in the Electoral College.  Call Representative Rynders at 404 656-6801 and ask him to keep H.B. 652 in committee.

February 16, 2018 Radio Commentary

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H.B. 652, Simple, but VERY Dangerous!

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, February 16, 2018 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

H.B. 652 might sound like a ho-hum bill about a ho-hum issue, but it’s not. It would remove Georgia law requiring the Secretary of State to keep up with Georgia electors to the Electoral College.

The Electoral College was part of the Great Compromise between big states and little states when the 13 colonies were transformed into a constitutional republic, and it’s as necessary today as it was then.

The Electoral College allows all states, regardless of size, to be players in the national process of electing the president and vice president. Each state is allotted electors in the Electoral College according to its congressional delegation, that’s comprised of two senators, plus the state’s allotted number of U.S. representatives. That process assures equal representation. Since Georgia has two senators and 16 U.S. House members, Georgia has 18 electors in the Electoral College and they vote every four years.

Having the Electoral College meant only Florida votes had to be recounted in the 2000 election. Without the Electoral College, other states could have demanded recounts. But, this might be thebest reason for having the Electoral College: The Electoral College is the only function of national government that is performed outside of Washington, and no senator, representative, or other federal official is allowed to be an elector in the Electoral College. Continue reading →

January 2017 Newsletter

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Electoral College Equalizes Power of Voters in All States

“Using Census data, we’ve¹ figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000. Here’s the map, with said counties shaded in. Below the map is the list¹ of all the counties,
so you can see if you live in one of them.”

Georgia Statistics: According to the latest figures available, the total population of Georgia is 9,687,653, which is almost equally divided among males (4,729,171) and females (4,958,482). The blue sections below identify the 146 most populace counties in the U.S., which includes four Georgia counties with the following residency: Fulton, 1,010,562; Gwinnett, 895,832; Cobb, 741,334; and DeKalb, 734,871. Taliaferro County has the fewest residents with 1,639.

NPV vs. Electoral College. Consider this half-and-half fact: The 146 blue counties outlined below include half of the population in the U.S. Over 2,854 gray counties are home to half of the U.S. population. The Electoral College provides voting equality for each half.

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