Earlier this month, Fulton County admitted that approximately 315,000 early votes from the 2020 election were illegally certified but were nonetheless still included in the final results of that election.
The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a challenge filed by David Cross, a local election integrity activist. Cross filed a challenge with the SEB in March 2022. Cross alleged that Fulton County violated Georgia statute in the handling of advanced voting ahead of the November 2020 election, counting hundreds of thousands of votes even though polling workers failed to sign off on the vote tabulation “tapes” critical to the certification process.
And Fulton County admitted to it.
Ann Brumbaugh, attorney for the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections, told the SEB in the hearing that while she has “not seen the tapes” herself, the county does “not dispute that the tapes were not signed.” Brumbaugh continued, “It was a violation of the rule. We, since 2020, again, we have new leadership and a new building and a new board and a new standard operating procedures. And since then the training has been enhanced. … But … we don’t dispute the allegation from the 2020 election.”
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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
This is an absolutely incredible story. Just as a reminder: In the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Joe Biden won the state of Georgia by a margin of 11,779 votes over Donald Trump. If 315,000 votes were invalid, the results for the whole state need to be called into question.
— Justin T. Haskins (@JustinTHaskins) December 19, 2025