So much for “the most secure election in American history.”
In a stunning yet quietly acknowledged admission, the Georgia State Election Board has substantiated a 2020 election violation involving 315,000 ballots in Fulton County, Georgia—the state’s most populous and historically controversial county when it comes to election integrity. According to the board’s findings, 36 of 37 early voting precincts failed to obtain required poll worker signatures on tabulation tapes, the official printouts verifying vote totals at the end of each voting day.
Let’s be clear: these tapes aren’t optional paperwork. They are legal instruments, the only official certification under Georgia law that confirms the authenticity of reported vote totals. Without them, there’s no legal chain of custody. There’s no lawful certification. And by the book, there are no valid results for those 315,000 ballots.
Yet the state certified them anyway.
During a December 9th board meeting, Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for Fulton County’s Board of Registration and Elections, gave what may go down as one of the most astonishingly casual confessions in modern election history:
“We do not dispute that the tapes were not signed.”
That’s it. No denial. No spin. Just a shrug and a reference to “new leadership” and “enhanced training” since 2020.
“We have new standard operating procedures,” Brumbaugh said. “But we don’t dispute the allegation.”
Imagine that. After years of censorship, prosecutions, deplatforming, and moral grandstanding from the political and media class, we find that one man—local election integrity activist David Cross—was right all along. He filed the formal complaint in 2022. The state took two years to act. But in the end, his allegation stood: Fulton County submitted advanced voting results that were legally uncertified.
Massive scandal:
Fulton County admits they “violated” the rules in 2020 when they certified ≈315K early votes that lacked poll workers’ signatures
“We don’t dispute the allegation.”
The SOS also found FC “violated Official Election… Processes”https://t.co/Gy9pgnbT8E
— Brianna Lyman (@briannalyman2) December 18, 2025
Here’s Cross’s summation of the issue:
“These are not clerical errors. They are catastrophic breaks in chain of custody and certification. Because no tape was ever legally certified, Fulton County had no lawful authority to certify its advanced voting results to the secretary of state. Yet it did.”
And Secretary Raffensperger accepted those results, folded them into Georgia’s certified total, and declared the election secure. Case closed. Democracy saved.
But what was brushed off as “election denialism” now looks, at minimum, like statutory noncompliance on a mass scale, and at worst, a rubber-stamping of uncertified votes in a pivotal swing state. Remember: Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia was 11,779 votes. The number of votes in question here is over 26 times larger.
The fact that it took one private citizen—not CNN, not the Secretary of State, not the State Election Board, and certainly not the Democratic Party—to uncover this breakdown, is an indictment of the entire apparatus that insisted Americans had no right to ask questions in the first place.
And the timing? More than a little rich. As President Trump faces prosecution for questioning the 2020 Georgia results—under the same legal system that now admits a quarter-million votes in Fulton County were processed without legal certification—this new evidence doesn’t just poke holes in the election denial narrative. It punctures it entirely.
As commentator David Strom put it:
“I seem to recall that President Trump was being prosecuted for making claims about the voting process in Georgia… [claims] that have turned out, unsurprisingly, to be true.”
