More than five months have elapsed since the 2020
presidential election, but officials in the Peach State have yet to produce
chain of custody records for hundreds of thousands of absentee vote-by-mail
ballots that were placed in drop boxes throughout the state.
The Georgia Star News reported that the Georgia Secretary of
State's office has said that there were 1.3 million absentee vote-by-mail
ballots cast in the contest. The outlet said that polling performed by John
McLaughlin & Associates suggests that 600,000 of those ballots were placed
in the drop boxes throughout the state.
"According to Georgia Election Code Emergency Rule
183-1-14-0.8-.14, promulgated by the Georgia State Election Board in July 2020,
but not codified by the state legislature at the time as the Georgia
Constitution requires, each of Georgia's 159 counties is responsible for
documenting the transfer of every batch of absentee ballots picked up at drop
boxes and delivered to the county election offices with ballot transfer forms.
The forms are required to be signed and dated, with time of pick up by the
collection team upon pick up, and then signed, dated, with time of delivery by
the registrar or designee upon receipt and accepted," The Star News
reported.
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