FBI executes search warrant at election office in Fulton county, Georgia

[AverageOldGuy]

24. Where are the ballots?

We are talking here about the 2020 election, which Trump swears that he won. He's looking for more votes.

Federal law requires that ballots, tally tapes from voting machines, and the like be retained 22 months after the election after which they can be destroyed. 22 months from November 2020 is September 2022.

I served 12 years on the electoral board in a rural Virginia county. We were required by law to have all ballots, machine tapes, etc., at the office of the Circuit Court Clerk not later than noon the day after the election. At the precincts, after the polls closed, the Officers of Election removed all paper ballots from the voting machines, placed them in boxes, then sealed the boxes and affixed paper seals all over the boxes -- seals were signed by the Officers of Election. All these sealed boxes were listed on an inventory -- e.g. "Nov 2020 Federal Election; XXXX County, 3rd Precinct, Box 1 of 3, 763 ballots" -- the clerk's office people counted the boxes against the inventory, took the sealed boxes into their vault, and locked the vault. Requires a court order from a judge to remove or open a box.

22 months later -- Sep 2022 -- the Clerk would turn the boxes over to a shredding service that came in big trucks with truck-mounted shredders. Clerk would witness the shredding of the ballots and certify to destroying the ballots on an inventory form. And the ballots were gone -- shredded material taken to an incinerator, burned, and witnessed, forms signed.

I have no idea WTF Kash Patel and Pa Bondi think they are going to find. The goddam 2020 ballots were shredded and incinerated years ago -- sounds like a Joe Biden conspiracy to me.