Georgia election workers fired, accused of shredding voting applications

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill

Mychael Schnell
5 hrs ago

Two Georgia election workers from the state's most populous county were fired on Friday for allegedly shredding voting applications in the past two weeks.

Fulton County revealed in a statement on Monday that, according to a preliminary review, two employees may have checked out batches of applications for processing but allegedly shredded a portion of the forms instead of fully processing them.

According to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R), 300 municipal election-related applications were allegedly destroyed.

Fellow employees reported the conduct to their supervisor on Friday morning, according to Fulton County. The two election workers were fired that day.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-election-workers-fired-accused-of-shredding-voting-applications/ar-AAPoy74?li=BB141NW3#image=1

[Ford_Prefect]

1. That's 300 applications we think we know about destroyed...

How many others don't we yet know of, or ever will? How many others were diverted or altered, or will be?

It's happened before over the last century but not on the scale it may be happening now, or is about to be.

[moreland01]

11. The law should be . . . especially in this particular case . .

if ballot applications were destroyed, a ballot will automatically be mailed to EVERY registered voter (even "inactive" voters) in the County. It's the only way to assure that those whose applications were destroyed will get a ballot.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Should there be criminal counts? Might be appropriate. Worth considering 300 or more. . . . nt

[Mawspam2]

3. Lots of questions.

What normally happens with ballot applications?

Are they held until after the election, then shredded?

Were the ballot applications in this case shredded after entering into the system?

Since no party information or voter intent is present on the ballot applications, on what basis were they shredded? Street / neighborhood?

On the two fired, were they seasoned pros or newbies unclear of established procedures?

Were they Trumpers intent on discrediting all elections in support of the big lie?

There are 14 mayoral candidates running for an open seat, were the two fired associated with any of them?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Those weren't "ballot applications" they were "voter registration" applications

The Hill's "msm" version of the article is confusingly interspersing the terms "voter registration" with "ballot applications" (I know GA has "mail-in"/"absentee ballots" that have their own applications that would need to be requested).

From the AP version of article -

Election workers accused of shredding voter applications

By KATE BRUMBACKyesterday


ATLANTA (AP) — Officials in Georgia’s most populous county, where election operations are already under review by the state, have fired two workers accused of shredding paper voter registration applications, according to a county statement released Monday.

Preliminary information indicates that the employees checked out batches of applications for processing, and they are alleged to have shredded some of the forms, the Fulton County statement says. Fellow employees reported the alleged actions to their supervisor Friday morning, and the two employees were fired that day.

The county statement says the applications were received in the past two weeks. Fulton County includes most of the city of Atlanta, where voters are set to go to the polls Nov. 2 to elect a mayor, City Council members and other municipal officials. The deadline to register to vote in that election was Oct. 4.

It’s not immediately clear whether the 300 voter registration records in question were lost, county spokeswoman Jessica Corbitt said. “Normally, processing a voter registration application involves entering them in the state system, updating them, verifying their information,” she said. “That is the matter that’s under investigation — was that process completed.”

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-georgia-voter-registration-elections-b3f140bcadaf8eaf4b82ec7bbfb94554

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I point to this capture of these two miscreants as proof the system works!!

Election workers of both parties or more keep an eye on one another, surely there are systems of accounting for volume and individual ballots and voter registrations at every point, much like double entry bookkeeping in accounting, to root out fraud, reconstruct what happens. It's not the local level process the GQP is going after, it's at the state level, the laws that govern elections, so that must be where the yield is for the corrupt.

[HotRod Deluxe]

6. maybe some jail time....

Send a serious message to all the cheaters!

[stopdiggin]

8. two points

1) this sounds a lot more like scofflaw employees (the mailman that has been discarding mail rather than run his route) rather than skullduggery by political operatives.

2) even if it is proven there is a political intent here (questionable) - it was childishly clumsy and inept, and resembles the old style 'ballot stuffing' (and disappearing) acts of old - than the electronic 'jiggery' that everyone is fixated on as targeted election fraud in the 21st century.

and 3) - (I know I promised only two) - doesn't really matter, because the end result here regardless of WHAT actually transpired - will be an opportunity for the 'big lie' 'fraudulent elections' crowd to say, "See, see, see ..." "Told you!"

[Alexander Of Assyria]

10. Enough such temp. employees/Deplorables around the country in key elections and then...

[stopdiggin]

14. I'll repeat - foolish, clumsy

and most of all horribly inept. If this is your master plan for rigging an election ... Best of luck.
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[SKKY]

9. I sincerely hope Democrats were not involved in this...

...because it's exactly what we don't need. There's enough nonsense going on without us providing reasons.

[SpankMe]

13. Raffensperger seems pretty honest for a Republican. n/t