A new lawsuit filed in the State of Georgia seeks to decertify the
2020 General Election results in that state based on emerging
evidence that vote tabulations included ballots cast by ineligible
voters and that absentee ballot signatures were not legally
verified.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in Fulton County by Paul Andrew
Boland, a registered elector, and requests that a decertification
of the state’s election results be implemented until such time as
an investigation is completed into the claims.
The complaint names Georgia Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger and other election and state officials as
defendants.
The lawsuit claims that 20,312 ballots were cast by people no
longer considered legal residents of Georgia. It also charges that
“suspiciously low ballot rejection rates” suggests that
mandated signature-verification procedures “were not enforced
with their usual rigor” resulting in dilution of Boland’s
vote.
Boland’s suit surmises that these issues cast “doubt on the
integrity of the Election” and that they provide grounds to
contest the Georgia election results.
In support of the claim that over 20,000 ballots were cast by
out-of-state residents
Officials in the peach state
certified the election for Biden after a hand recount earlier this
month. The Trump campaign is pushing to have the certification
reversed.https://t.co/LADcbBdOjy— The Washington Times (@WashTimes)
December 1, 2020
The complaint cites expert analysis performed by Matt Braynard,
an data analyst and former data chief and strategist for the
Trump’s campaign.
Braynard and his team examined residency information on official
State of Georgia voter rolls and found that thousands of voters
registered postal and commercial addresses made to appear like
residential addresses. This is a clear violation of Georgia
law.
“This number of invalid votes far exceeds the certified margin
of victory of 12,760 in the presidential results,” the complaint
says.
Boland’s claim of lax a signature verification process is
founded on abnormally low absentee ballot rejection rates achieved
during the November 3 election.
An affidavit filed by Benjamin Overholt, a University of
Northern Colorado expert in applied statistics and research methods
determined a 0.15 percent rejection rate in the 2020 General
Election, compared to a 0.28 percent rejection rate in 2016, a 0.20
percent rejection rate in 2018, and 0.28 percent rejection rate in
the 2020 primary.
“There are other anomalies in the reported data that should be
analyzed, and many raise significant questions about the conduct
and results of the 2020 General Election,” Overholt wrote in his
sworn statement.
Overholt made clear that the recent deficient “hand count”
audit of Georgia’s election results ordered by Raffensperger
would not have the capability to resolve these issues.
The complaint says that while the audit and recount were carried
out, “no signature matching was required during that process.”
The document reads, “without a meaningful verification of
signatures, the election results cannot be certified.”
The suit further alleges that Raffensperger – ahead of the
election – took illegal and unconstitutional steps to weaken
established safeguards against the casting of fraudulent ballots.
Those measures included weakening the signature verification
requirements.
