If hundreds of thousands of ballots in Georgia’s pivotal 2020 election lacked legally required certification, then calling it “secure” was never a matter of opinion; it was demonstrably false.

As President Donald J. Trump asserted during and after the 2020 election, the integrity of that contest was not merely a political talking point but a foundational requirement for democracy itself. Now, five years later, an official admission from Fulton County, Ga.’s most populous jurisdiction with nearly 1.1 million residents, confirms what millions of Americans suspected: Election procedures were not followed, and the consequences were profound.

Fulton County recently acknowledged that approximately 315,000 early-voting ballots in the 2020 presidential race were never properly certified with required poll-worker signatures on tabulation tapes, yet were nonetheless included in the county’s totals that were transmitted to the state and certified as part of the official result. (RELATED: Jasmine Crockett Thinks She’ll Win Senate Seat By Relying On Major Democrat Losers)

To comprehend the scale of this issue, consider this contrast: President Joe Biden’s certified margin of victory in Georgia was just 11,779 votes. Yet the number of uncertified ballots in question — 315,000 — was nearly 27 times larger than that margin. Under Georgia law, every ballot scanner must produce signed tapes at the close of voting to verify that vote counts started at zero, ran unaltered, and ended with an accurate total. In Fulton County in........

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