FBI had raided Georgia election office searching for evidence of 2020 vote fraud.

 

FBI agents raid the Fulton Country election office. New York Post/AP.

The FBI has raided the Fulton County election office searching for evidence of 2020 voter fraud. New York Post. The agents were acting on a search warrant but very little else is known about their objectives and discoveries. Fulton County was a firestorm of fraud accusations in 2020 after election monitors were kicked out over a burst pipe claim. Trump lost Georgia by 12,000 votes and Trump has claimed that the irregularities in the country, which covers most of Atlanta, were large enough to change the results of the election. Georgia and national news media have denied that any fraud happened in Atlanta. 

My Comment:

Very interesting. I have always maintained that the powers that be never even attempted to prove that the 2020 election was legitimate because they didn't do things like this. In a sane world, accusations of voter fraud would be taken serious as not doing so will damage the legitimacy of elections. 

Does that mean that fraud is going to be found here? I have no idea. Georgia was an absolute mess in 2020 but that could have been due to incompetence, not malfeasance. The Coronavirus Pandemic screwed everything up and it allowed people to vote in ways they weren't able to before and haven't been able to do since. 

Given the large number of mail in ballots and votes coming in after the election was over, it's very possible that there was fraud in the state. Indeed, fraud happens in every single election. Husbands and wives fill out forms for their spouses, family members fill out ballots for their senile relations and people double register, voting in two states in the same election. All of these things happen fairly frequently, but aren't usually cared about because it's not enough to change the results of an election.

But given the circumstances in 2020 where election laws were changed on the fly and thousands of voter registration forms and ballots were sent out, it is certainly possible that there was more fraud than usual. It is certainly plausible that there were more than 12,000 false votes, but without actually looking at the ballots, it was impossible to prove. By looking at these ballots that should no longer be a problem. 

I don't think the Trump administration has anything to lose by looking into 2020 voter fraud. The worst case scenario is that no fraud is found. That's status quo ante right now and all it wouldn't change much. The powers that be already say that the 2020 election was secure so the only effect would be people trusting elections a little more, an outcome the powers that be should like. 

But if voter fraud is found? It will be an earthshaking revelation that could change how elections are run in the United States. Reform would have to be put into place and things like the SAVE act, that requires voter ID/proof of citizenship in order to vote. Current law has the only requirement for citizenship in most states being a checkbox that can easily be checked fraudulently. 

It would also totally change the context of Trump's four years in the wilderness and the context of the January 6th protest. If it turns out that there was indeed voter fraud in Georgia, even if it wouldn't have been enough to get Trump into office, it would mean that Trump's complaints were indeed valid and that the Biden led government's attempts to imprison him were part of a coverup. 

Of course even if rock solid evidence of voter fraud is found and it is enough to show that Georgia went to Trump in 2020, I think a large portion of the left would reject it out of hand. To them, voter fraud doesn't exist. This isn't just a belief, it's almost a religious belief, and questioning it would bring their whole narrative crashing down... 

Regardless, I don't expect any revelations from this for a long time. Criminal investigations take time and I doubt that Trump and his administration would want to go off half-cocked on a story of this importance. Either we will hear more about this case in a few months or it will quietly be announced that nothing was found. Time will tell.