New Georgia election rule: Number of ballots must match total voters

New Georgia election rule: Number of ballots must match total voters

by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Georgia State Election Board on Monday approved a rule that requires the number of ballots must match the number of voters before election results can be certified. The decision comes after Fulton County was found to have likely scanned thousands of ballots twice in […]

Smartmatic voting machines founder indicted; Systems used in Venezuela, Philippines, Utah, L.A.

Smartmatic voting machines founder indicted; Systems used in Venezuela, Philippines, Utah, L.A.

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2024 Contract With Our Readers A federal grand jury in south Florida has indicted the president of voting machine company Smartmatic on bribery and money-laundering charges. Roger Pinate, along with alleged co-conspirators Jorge Miguel Vasquez, and Elie Moreno, have been accused of giving former chairman of the Philippines’ Commission on […]

Fixing 2020? New rule empowers Georgia county election boards to conduct ‘reasonable inquiry’

Fixing 2020? New rule empowers Georgia county election boards to conduct ‘reasonable inquiry’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Georgia State Election Board on Aug. 6 passed a new rule which will give county election boards the authority to examine election results, including this November’s, before certifying them. In a 3-2 ruling, the board voted to allow county officials in the state’s increasingly […]

Trump goes down to Georgia . . . and publicly slams its GOP top leaders

Trump goes down to Georgia . . . and publicly slams its GOP top leaders

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Georgia has had four years to sort out its election processes. How has it done? The two individuals you would think have the most sway in ensuring election integrity are Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State George Raffensperger. Those same two individuals were […]

Fulton County made a hash of the 2020 election, but expects voters to trust the system in 2024

Fulton County made a hash of the 2020 election, but expects voters to trust the system in 2024

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Georgia’s State Election Board on July 9 gave initial approval to an amended rule that would give local officials more authority to dispute election results if there is a discrepancy in vote totals tallied and the number of votes cast at precincts. The proposed […]

Elon Musk on looming 2024 issue: ‘Eliminate electronic voting machines’

Elon Musk on looming 2024 issue: ‘Eliminate electronic voting machines’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Electronic voting machines should not be in use in U.S. elections due to their vulnerability to being hacked, Elon Musk said. “We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high,” Musk remarked in […]

Vote count discrepancies lead to review of Dominion contract in Puerto Rico

Vote count discrepancies lead to review of Dominion contract in Puerto Rico

by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Hundreds of ballot discrepancies in Puerto Rico’s recent primary election have prompted the island territory to review its contract with U.S.-based Dominion Voting Systems, a report said. The discrepancies occurred in the June 2 vote due to a software issue that caused machines supplied by […]

Republican member sues Fulton County Board of Elections after being shown results but not data

Republican member sues Fulton County Board of Elections after being shown results but not data

by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2024 Contract With Our Readers A Republican member of the Fulton County Board of Registration & Elections (BRE) in Georgia is suing the board she serves on for failing to allow her access to election processes, data, and equipment. Julie Adams, who was sworn in to the board in February, […]

2020 accountability? Fulton County gets off with a slap on the wrist from Georgia Board of Elections

2020 accountability? Fulton County gets off with a slap on the wrist from Georgia Board of Elections

by WorldTribune Staff, May 8, 2024 Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington said via Telegam on May 7: “Very important Georgia State Election Board meeting coming up at 9:30 a.m. The last item on the agenda involves 20,977 unsubstantiated votes in the 2020 Election recount and 20,713 votes in the first count from tabulators that ‘do not […]

John Eastman: Was the 2020 election stolen? ‘Absolutely; I have no doubt in my mind’

John Eastman: Was the 2020 election stolen? ‘Absolutely; I have no doubt in my mind’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2024 John Eastman, one of the many lawyers in President Donald Trump’s contesting of the 2020 election results who have been targeted in the Democrats’ lawfare campaign, said he still has “no doubt” that the election was stolen from Trump. Last month, a California judge formally recommended that Eastman lose […]