Fulton County admission on unsigned voting tabulations brings back spotlight on 2020 election

ATLANTA — Fulton County's admission that more than 130 tabulator tapes, the receipt-like pieces of paper that contain vote tabulation information for a particular machine, were unsigned in 2020 has brought the spotlight back on Georgia's election that year.

The records account for virtually all of the county's early in-person votes in 2020, more than 315,000. Fulton County addressed the issue of the unsigned tapes, raised in complaint SEB 2022-015, before the State Election Board earlier this month, in a moment that has gained increasing attention this week, including from figures such as Elon Musk after The Federalist reported on it.

The county contends, in essence, that poll workers five years ago made an administrative error that they've taken steps to resolve — attorney Ann Brumbaugh represented the county at the hearing on December 9, and said those steps include enhanced training for election workers as well as a review process on handling the paper records, known as tabulator tapes, and a self-initiated investigation process if they're not signed.

The tapes are a part of the record-keeping and chain of custody procedure outlined in state regulations. Georgia state Rule 183-1-12-.12 requires a poll manager and two witnesses to print three such tapes, and "sign each tape indicating that it is a true and correct copy of the tape produced by the ballot scanner."



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