As we first reported last week, the Georgia State Elections Board (SEB) has been passing a raft of new election integrity rules after the members realized the 2020 election really was stolen. As expected, the SEB voted 3-2 on Monday to pass another set of new rules that will make it virtually impossible for the Democrats to cheat in November.
Even if they try to cheat, they’ll get caught and likely go to jail.
The rules are so good that the New York Times is freaking out and admitting that Democrats may as well give up Georgia as a lost cause—they can’t win there.
A long time ago, way, way back in Ye Olde Ancient Times, there was a dirty and crooked politician named Joe Biden running for president. Remember him? I know, it seems like it was a thousand years ago when that happened, right?
The SEB realized that the 2020 election had been stolen in April 2024. The evidence was overwhelming. As a result, the board started passing new election integrity rules in April and May 2024 to prevent Joe Biden and the Democrats from ever stealing an election again. By June 2024, Joe Biden’s campaign had given up on Georgia.
With the April-May election integrity measures that were already in place, they knew that Georgia was a lost cause. The Biden campaign pulled all their major funding out of Georgia. They decided not to waste a bunch of money on expensive advertising and Get Out the Vote drives since they had no hope of winning.
The campaign left a skeleton crew in place in Georgia, so they’d have someone there to pass out yard signs and bumper stickers. The remaining crew was despondent at the loss of funding. Everyone knows that Georgia is a red state, though, and without the ability to cheat, the campaign knew they might as well spend the cash somewhere else where it could still do some good.
That all happened BEFORE the Monday SEB vote to adopt several additional election integrity measures. Here is the hyperventilating headline that appeared in the New York Times after the vote:
“How a Far-Right Takeover of Georgia’s Election Board Could Swing the Election.”
The sub-headline reads:
“The unelected body that shapes voting rules has a new conservative majority who question the state’s 2020 results. They now have new power to influence the results in 2024.”
You can just picture the reporter who had to write that story huffing into a paper bag, can’t you? Somebody lend that poor kid an asthma inhaler!
In the aftermath of the 2020 election, they did a machine recount, a hand recount, and a mini audit. The numbers never matched up on any of the counts. They got different results every time. Ballots had been double-counted, and it was generally a hot mess as we all know.
This November, that can’t happen again in Georgia because of the new rules. One Republican, one Democrat, and an election manager must conduct an immediate hand count as the ballots are being counted. All three must agree on the number of ballots counted. That total must match the number of votes that the machines count. Both of those numbers are required to match the number of people who voted based on voter IDs.
If the three sets of numbers don’t match up in a particular county, that county precinct cannot certify its results yet. There has to be a full investigation and adjudication of the number discrepancy to figure out what happened. There will be no rush to certify the 2024 election in Georgia if there are any “anomalies.”
The votes in Georgia this November will not be counted after election observers have been sent home. The observers have to be right there and participating. There won’t be any magic suitcase ballots pulled out from under a table at State Farm Arena after the observers are sent home because of a fake “water pipe burst.”
It’s kind of shocking for the New York Times to admit that the Democrats can’t win Georgia if anti-cheating measures are in place. What the Georgia SEB has done should be a model for every Republican state: Find the loopholes and plug them, so that neither side can cheat and steal an election.
