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Georgia State Election Board Votes to Subpoena 2020 Election Physical Ballots, Envelopes, and Stubs From Fulton County

September 27, 2025

Georgia’s 2020 Election results source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Georgia#/media/File:Georgia_Presidential_Election_Results_2020.svg

 

Earlier this month, the Gateway Pundit reported that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a formal request to the Department of Justice to investigate the 2020 Election in Georgia, specifically the Georgia Secretary of State and Fulton County.  This followed a July resolution passed by the Georgia State Election Board requesting that the Secretary of State and Attorney General seek the assistance of the Department of Justice to help resolve outstanding allegations, specifically SEB Complaint 2023-025.

On Wednesday, September 24th, the Georgia State Election Board voted 3-1 to issue subpoenas to the Fulton County Board of Registrations, the Director of Elections Nadine Williams, and the Clerk of the Superior Court, Shae Alexander.

The subpoena will be for the physical paper ballots, ballot stubs, and the envelopes for all absentee ballots.  Previously, on Election Day 2024,  the Board had subpoenaed “election documents” from the 2020 election; however, after nine months, Fulton County had not yet handed over any corresponding documents, subject to pending litigation.

The subpoena is a continuation of the investigation in SEB Complaint 2023-025, which alleges that thousands of duplicate ballots were counted in the final tally, as acknowledged by Board Member Sara Ghazal.  However, that complaint also entails other claims, such as 17,852 ballots that were counted that have no corresponding ballot images.

During the discussion, Ghazal called the subpoenas a “fishing expedition” before Board Member Dr. Janice Johnston pointed out that each absentee ballot should have a ballot envelope and a ballot stub maintained.

Ghazal questioned, “To what end are you seeking the actual envelopes?  What is it you hope to discover from that?”

“This is to complete the investigation regarding irregularities and inconsistencies from the 2020 election, specifically pertaining to case SEB 2023-025.”

Dr. Johnston explained that the case was about missing documents for 20,000 votes that were part of the Election Day count, as well as 17,852 votes that are missing ballot images, including absentee ballots.

“Are there allegations that the ballot envelopes are not authentic?  This feels like a fishing expedition to me!”

Board Member Janelle King interjected that if you have the ballots without the envelopes, then you can’t authenticate that they’re legitimate ballots.

“What do you propose to do to authenticate more than 100,000 envelopes?” Ghazal asked.

“For every absentee ballot, there should be an absentee ballot envelope,” Dr. Johnston responded.

Ghazal followed up, “So it’s just about the number of envelopes?”

“Perhaps,” fired back Dr. Johnston.

On October 15, 2020, Rick Barron, then-Director of Elections for Fulton County, ordered 770,210 Election Day ballots at a cost of $223,360.90.  According to the description in the quote from Runbeck Election Services, these ballots contained “no stub[s]” and were to arrive “on or before October 24, 2020.”

Initially, this purchase (as well as an additional 144,350 ballots from Fidlar Election) was claimed to be “Emergency Ballots” by Gabriel Sterling, the Chief Operating Officer of the Georgia Secretary of State.

“They got hit by COVID.  They [were] concern[ed] they couldn’t do logic & accuracy testing of the equipment.  As a plan C, they ordered enough emergency ballots in case they had to do handmarked at all polling locations,” Sterling wrote.

Veteran poll manager Bridget Thorne, who is now on the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, questioned the “no stub” portion of the order back in November 2021.

“The stubs number the ballots.  When a ballot is used[,] the manager keeps the stub to verify it was used.  The ballot then becomes anonymous for the voter.  With no stubs, there is no accountability of used/unused ballots.  Why would anyone order no stub ballots?”

There also didn’t seem to be a corresponding order for any envelopes in the request.  In Georgia, absentee ballots are different in size from election day ballots that are printed on Dominion ICX Ballot Marking Devices.  However, emergency provisional ballots are the same size as the absentee ballot, but do not have a corresponding envelope since they are cast in a precinct rather than mailed back.

Since there aren’t any provided records of Georgia ordering corresponding envelopes with the more than 900,000 excess ballots they ordered in late October 2020, and since Sterling acknowledged that they didn’t need to use “Plan C,” the total number of absentee ballots should equal the number of envelopes retained, and any emergency provisional ballots should have a stub to document the usage of emergency ballots.

 

The complete hearing (queued up at the subpoena motion) can be viewed here:

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