Exclusive: Fulton County’s 315,000 Admission Goes Well Beyond Just “Unsigned Poll Tapes” – Including Illegal Tabulation, Rule Violations and Open Records Deception
During a December 9 hearing before the State Election Board (SEB), the attorney for Fulton County’s Board of Registration and Elections (BRE), Ann Brumbaugh, “did not dispute” the fact that over 315,000 ballots in Fulton County were missing signatures on the poll tapes, as required by Ga. Comp. R & Regs. 183-1-14-.02(15) and O.C.G.A. § 21-2-483(h).
This was in response to a complaint submitted to the SEB in March 2022, 33 months prior to the SEB hearing.
In addition to the poll tapes being unsigned, another egregious and concerning discovery was made: the poll tapes didn’t even come from the ones at the precincts where the ballots were originally scanned at, as required by Georgia election rules.
Concerning Response to Open Records Requests
Prior to the December 9th, 2025 admission, and even the March 2022 complaint, Fulton County had a different response.
In an Open Records Request submitted by the Election Oversight Group for the poll tape records that were subject to the March 2022 complaint, Fulton County Attorney Steve Rosenberg responded in writing so there was “a record of our response.”
In the response, Rosenberg states that “the zero tapes are printed on paper that resembles old-style receipts” and that “they fade and they fade even more when handled.”
He then states that they’ve received “a number of requests for these and other poll tapes” and that “over time, the zero tapes have become almost completely faded” and then says that he provided what they maintain and can locate “that still has some printing on it.”
Then he claims that the “consolation is that the Secretary of State’s office maintains the originals” and says that a request should be sent to their office.
The response from Kevin Moncla, who co-authored the March 2022 complaint with David Cross and also co-authored SEB Complaint 2023-2025 which is still under investigation, makes valid arguments using Rosenberg’s own admissions.
If Fulton County is not in possession of the originals, because the Secretary of State’s office allegedly maintains them, then the requested documents “would not be subject to the ‘fading’ [Rosenberg] claims as photocopies are printed with toner and not subject to fading.”
However, as the response points out, the Secretary of State clarified that they do not possess the original Zero Tapes. “State law requires the originals be deposited with the Superior Court.”
Further, Fulton County attempted to charge $10,000 for this request. From the response to Rosenberg:
“As you have had a number of requests, which I suspect were through the portal, [it] indicates that you also have electronic copies of the documents at issue. The same also raises the question why your office has quoted me a price of $10,000 (Fulton Co. claims it was $1,500) to produce documents that you have already produced as the Open Records law states that those should be free of charge?”
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Remember the 315,000 ballots that are missing signed poll tapes that Fulton admitted to in a recent SEB meeting??
Want to see the Deputy Attorney for Fulton County attempting to cover up the missing poll tapes by deliberately misleading on an open… pic.twitter.com/B9gC4FiRac
— CannCon (@CannConActual) December 28, 2025
Improper Printing of Tapes on Different Tabulators in Violation of Election Rules
In Georgia, under Rule 183-1-14-.02(14) and (15), “registrars shall deliver all of the ballot scanners used for advance voting…to the election superintendent or the tabulating center” where the seals are to be verified as not being tampered with (14).
After the seals are verified, “the election superintendent or tabulating center personnel shall open each ballot scanner and turn on the power.” They then compare the election counters of the ballot scanners with the absentee ballot recap form to verify there are no discrepancies.
The election personnel “shall cause each ballot scanner to print a minimum of three tapes showing the vote totals as cast on that ballot scanner.”
If there are no discrepancies, “Three witnesses shall sign each of the tapes or shall write on the tapes the reason why they will not sign the tapes.”
But this is not what happened. Instead, Fulton County used just 16 tabulators at the English Street Warehouse rather than the 148 tabulators that scanned the ballots at the precincts. The rule requires that the poll tapes be printed from the tabulator that the votes were cast on.
An itemized list of the serial numbers of the tabulators used shows that nine tabulator serial numbers represented more than 10 closing tapes.
Two tabulators had 16 tapes attributed to them and three tabulators had 15 tapes attributed to them. None of them were the original tabulators used in the early voting process to scan the ballots as required by law.
Of the 148 tabulators used at the early voting precincts, 136 of them are documented as being closed on just 16 tabulators that were not deployed to precincts but rather stored at the English St. Warehouse.
The remaining tabulators have no record of existing (as documented in SEB 2023-025) and account for over 20,000 ballots.
Below is an example of the Fulton County closing tapes for the tabulator with serial number AAFAJIV0104. Notice that the Tabulator ID, Tabulator Name, Voting Location, and Opened/Closed/Printed time and dates are different for each, but the serial number and the Protective Counter are the same.
In total, the Election Oversight Group found that 15 poll closing tapes had the same serial number as the tapes above. Those precincts were:
The poll tapes below from Floyd County show how they should look with the opening tape on the left having matching fields and showing a direct relation between ballots counted and the increment in the Protective Counter.
Fulton County followed up with another email, explaining that, “The reason they are mostly unsigned, I have learned, is that there was not a requirement from the SOS that they be signed at that time. There has since been put in place a requirement that they be signed.”
The argument that the rule was not in place at that time is inaccurate. Rule 183-1-14-.02(15) was in place for the November 2020 election.
As mentioned earlier, the SEB Rule that regulates how the poll tapes are handled was Ga. Comp. R & Regs. 183-1-14-.02(15), which was originally passed in 2003 when Georgia adopted the Direct Recording Equipment (DRE) voting machines.
However, the rule defining the use and process for optical scanners (BMDs as opposed to DREs) was necessary because of the purchase of the Dominion Voting system.
It was adopted in January 2020 and became effective in March 2020. Had it not been, there would have been no applicable rules for the 2020 Election. However, the statute specifically requires the tapes (official returns) to be certified- and it does include those for advance voting.
In 2020, Georgia statute required poll tapes associated with ballot scanners to be certified. Georgia regulations, published by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2020 after they were issued by the State Election Board, gave specific procedures that had to… pic.twitter.com/sWqxGsmTt0
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 22, 2025
The December 9th, 2025 admission by Fulton County that revealed at least 315,000 ballots lacking required closing poll tape signatures was just the tip of the iceberg.
The improper closing of the polls on just 16 machines, none of which were deployed to advance voting precincts, raises even more concern.
It should also be noted that Dominion Voting staff were being paid $2,000 per person per day to work during this same period at that same facility, where they had earlier conducted Logic and Accuracy testing after a reported COVID outbreak.
Hey @GaSecofState were you aware of this?? $2,000 per person per day for Dominion techs to run the Fulton Co election because the staff was “exposed” to COVID???
Can you tag Rich Barron for me, Brad?? pic.twitter.com/8tVekAg5wC
— CannCon (@CannConActual) September 24, 2021
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