Yesterday afternoon Georgia’s Senate panel hosted Rudy Giuliani for an evidential hearing regarding voter fraud in Georgia. The fake news won’t report the facts so it is up to us. Here were my key takeaways from the session.

The biggest piece of evidence was video footage that showed several suitcases being rolled out from under a table after poll watchers and media were told that vote counting was over and asked to leave. Clear evidence of significant fraud.
A Professor of Constitutional Law and member of 11th Circuit and Supreme Court Bar spoke about a lower than normal mail-in rejection rate of 0.33% in this election versus 6.4% in the 2016 election despite having twice the number of mail-in ballots.
Normalizing for this, 40k votes were counted that shouldn’t have been. More critical perhaps, was the view that the consent decree signed by Georgia’s Secretary of State violates the statutory scheme and permits the legislature to invalidate the entire election.
A change to the underage registration window to allow 16 yr olds to register 6 months earlier than normal also violates the constitution and allows the legislature to step in. Some 66k underage votes were counted in this election that shouldn’t have been counted under state law.
Without even proving any fraud, these two items would allow the legislature of Georgia to select electors of their choosing and based on this testimony it is likely that the Supreme Court would agree.
A polling analyst said 40k people in Georgia voted illegally by moving from one county to another more than 30 days prior to the election and voting in their prior county of residence. Those votes were counted even though they violate state law. The data is public information.
He also found that 2,000 voters were registered to the same homeless shelter and said this is an easy loophole to abuse.
Dana Smith, a local Georgian and election volunteer for years, noted that the paper ballots from the Dominion machines at her location fell into containers that didn’t have seals and had no chain of custody forms.
The ballots were transferred to canvas bags and she requested official seals to secure these bags before transferring them to the central office. After several requests, the supervisor finally provided the seals but there was no chain of custody form.
The supervisor refused to provide it. The supervisor drove the ballots to the central office to drop them off and Dana followed them. The next morning, Dana went to central office, told them the story, and requested a chain of custody form for the canvas bags.
She asked to see the bags so that she could verify that the seals were unbroken. All requests were denied. During the first recount, these same ballots were delivered back to Dana’s local location in paper boxes, not in the canvas bags.
Anything could have happened to the ballots between the time that they left her polling location and the recount. One college student at Georgia State, Grace, said that she never registered for an absentee ballot in her life.
When she showed up to vote, she was informed that someone had registered absentee under her identification. She was later told that the person voted the ballot. She submitted a case to the Secretary of State and was given the run around. The case was closed with no investigation.
Grace still isn’t sure if her vote counted.

I found these testimonies to be highly troubling. I found the information provided in these testimonies to be extremely convincing. The people who testified signed sworn statements under penalty of perjury.
These testimonies alone amount to 100,000s of votes that should never have been counted. Many multiples of what Trump would need to win the election. These testimonies also suggest that the legislature can act right now, without any evidence of fraud, because the constitution
allows the legislature to step in when the statutory scheme is changed without a change to state law. Put simply, the Secretary of State cannot change the voting process without first getting approval from the people’s representatives – Georgia voters. #stopthesteal
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