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........

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