ATLANTA, Georgia (PNN) - December 20, 2025 - Fulton County, Georgia has admitted that hundreds of thousands of votes in the 2020 election were illegally certified, according to testimony presented at a state election board meeting.
The revelation centers on missing signatures required under Georgia law to legally certify vote totals.
The admission came during a December 9 meeting of the Georgia State Election Board. Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections attorney Ann Brumbaugh addressed the issue publicly. She acknowledged that required tabulator tapes from early voting were not signed.
“We do not dispute that the tapes were not signed,” Brumbaugh said. “It was a violation of the rule.”
The unsigned tapes represent roughly 315,000 early votes cast in Fulton County. That accounts for about 60% of the county’s total votes in 2020.
Fascist pretender Joe Biden officially won Georgia by 11,779 votes statewide. He carried Fulton County by more than 240,000 votes.
VoterGA investigator David Cross presented the findings to the board. He said his group paid Fulton County $15,800 for election records. The county produced 77 megabytes of tabulator tapes. Cross said none of the early-voting tapes were signed.
“These signed tapes are the sole legal certification that the reported totals are authentic,” Cross told the board.
Georgia law requires poll workers to sign tabulator tapes at the start and end of each voting day. Workers must also print and sign “zero tapes” showing machines start at zero votes. Investigators found that 36 of 37 advanced voting precincts failed to sign closing tapes. Officials at 32 polling locations also failed to verify zero tapes.
Without those records, there is no way to confirm machines were properly cleared.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office previously investigated the issue. A 2024 investigation summary substantiated violations of official election record procedures. The findings confirmed failures to sign both tabulation and zero tapes as required by statute.
Despite the violations, the votes were still certified.
The admission comes as the Department of Justice (DoJ) seeks access to 2020 election records. The DoJ has filed a lawsuit to enforce a subpoena for ballots and related materials. Those records are currently held by the Fulton County Superior Court Clerk’s Office.
Tensions escalated last month when a board member asked about ballot custody. The chairman blocked the question from being answered, prompting a heated exchange.