The Georgia Hour, episode 218: FULTON COUNTY: ‘We Don’t Dispute It’ — 315,000 Votes in 2020 Were NEVER Legally Certified

The episode is a live break­down and reac­tion show by host BKP (The Geor­gia Hour on VoiceofRuralAmerica.com) cov­er­ing the bomb­shell Decem­ber 9, 2025 Geor­gia State Elec­tion Board (SEB) meet­ing on case SEB 2022-015 — a com­plaint filed by cit­i­zen inves­ti­ga­tor David Cross (with heavy assis­tance from Kevin Mon­cla and oth­ers) regard­ing mas­sive vio­la­tions in Ful­ton County’s han­dling of 2020 ear­ly-vot­ing tab­u­la­tor tapes.

Core alle­ga­tions proven in the hear­ing:

• Ful­ton Coun­ty pro­duced zero signed tab­u­la­tor results tapes for ear­ly vot­ing in 2020, despite Geor­gia rule 183–1‑12.12-.12 requir­ing three poll-work­er sig­na­tures on every clos­ing tape (one for the polling place, one with the mem­o­ry card, one with the recap form).
• These tapes rep­re­sent 315,892 bal­lots cast in ear­ly vot­ing across 148 tab­u­la­tors.
• 10 tapes are com­plete­ly miss­ing (the same 10 tapes cen­tral to the sep­a­rate Joe Rossi/Kevin Mon­cla case SEB 2023-025).
• Numer­ous tapes show dupli­cate scan­ner ser­i­al num­bers, tapes print­ed on dif­fer­ent machines than the ones that scanned the bal­lots, and impos­si­ble print times (e.g., polls “closed” at 1:56 AM and 2:09 AM on Nov 4, 2020).
• No “zero tapes” (open­ing tapes prov­ing the tab­u­la­tor start­ed at 0 bal­lots) were pro­vid­ed for ear­ly vot­ing — break­ing chain of cus­tody com­plete­ly.
• Ful­ton Coun­ty open­ly admit­ted the tapes were unsigned and 10 are missing/lost/destroyed, but claimed “new lead­er­ship, new build­ing, new pro­ce­dures” fixed every­thing and essen­tial­ly told the board “do what­ev­er you want, we’re done look­ing.”

Key moments from the SEB meet­ing:

• Dr. Jan­ice John­ston (act­ing chair) and Janelle King evis­cer­at­ed Fulton’s excus­es, call­ing the sit­u­a­tion “a nation­al dis­grace,” “slop­py and lazy at best,” and stat­ing Ful­ton Coun­ty “had no law­ful author­i­ty to cer­ti­fy” its 2020 ear­ly-vot­ing results.
• Board mem­bers repeat­ed­ly point­ed out that with­out signed zero and clos­ing tapes on the same machine, there is no pos­si­ble way to ver­i­fy or repli­cate the 2020 ear­ly-vot­ing results in Ful­ton Coun­ty.
• After Fulton’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive essen­tial­ly shrugged and said “we’ve giv­en you every­thing we have,” the three present board mem­bers (John­ston, King, and Jef­fares — both the chair­man and the Demo­c­rat mem­ber were absent) vot­ed 3–0 to:
  • Refer the entire case to Geor­gia Attor­ney Gen­er­al Chris Carr for inves­ti­ga­tion and enforce­ment.
  • Request the max­i­mum $5,000 fine per unsigned tape (134 unsigned tapes = $670,000 poten­tial penal­ty).

Inter­view with com­plainant David Cross

• Cross explains he filed the com­plaint in March 2022, spent $15,800 on open-records requests, and wait­ed almost four years for a hear­ing.
• Empha­sizes this is non-par­ti­san: the elec­tron­ic sys­tem in Geor­gia is inher­ent­ly inse­cure and hack­able no mat­ter who is in pow­er.
• Calls for hand-marked, hand-count­ed paper bal­lots count­ed in pub­lic on cam­era as the only trust­wor­thy solu­tion.
• Notes the exec­u­tive direc­tor of the SEB said he is “absolute­ly sick” of Ful­ton Coun­ty being “the embar­rass­ment of the state.”

Host BKP’s take­away

• This is the first time in five years a major 2020 Ful­ton Coun­ty case has been for­mal­ly referred to the Attor­ney General’s office with teeth (poten­tial mas­sive fines and pub­lic acknowl­edg­ment of invalid cer­ti­fi­ca­tion).
• The host sees this as a crack in the wall — the same board will hear the even big­ger Joe Rossi miss­ing-tapes case (SEB 2023-025) the fol­low­ing day.
• Ends on an opti­mistic note: “It is not a dark hole… I see this as our chance.”

In short: After five years of stonewalling, Ful­ton Coun­ty final­ly had to admit on record that its 2020 ear­ly-vot­ing results were nev­er legal­ly cer­ti­fied, and the State Elec­tion Board just sent the case to the Attor­ney Gen­er­al for pun­ish­ment and fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tion.