Defeating the Deep State's Inversion Matrix

American Thinker 

As truth emerges about one horrible and depraved story after another -- from the Epstein files to the tens of billions of dollars of Somali immigrant welfare fraud in Minnesota -- the related dots are not random or isolated but rather connected, revealing a proliferation of evil through a pervasive inversion matrix.

Most everyone has heard about the transposition of good and evil and truth and falsehood. The essential message of the popular 1999 movie, The Matrix, revolves around people awakening to the true nature of reality, rejecting illusion and control, and embracing personal freedom through choice and self-realization. This “reality inversion” phenomenon was understood in ancient times. In about 390  B.C. Plato explained the power of fake illusions in the “Cave Allegory” in his  masterpiece, The Republic. About 320 years earlier, Isaiah the prophet had presented a deeper spiritual explanation in the Old Testament book by his name, chapter 5, verse 20: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”

There should be no surprise that Judeo-Christian western civilization is under attack. Demonic forces are real and that is what you get when you drive the true God out of the culture.

In America, these consequences are seen in the streets, the workplace and schools, entertainment, and in government and courts. On January 2, the Sharia Marxist Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated in New York City, the most important city in America. In America’s “founding state” Virginia, which produced four out of the five first and greatest presidents, the inversion matrix was key in Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s victory. Running as a moderate, Spanberger revealed she was really a wolf in sheep’s clothing on her inauguration January 17,  signing a raft of executive orders that make her one of the most left-wing radical governors in the nation.

It’s not just political or cultural. The “inversion matrix” has dark spiritual roots, and is purpose-driven to attack and undermine the beliefs and norms of Judeo-Christian people and countries, rendering them vulnerable to internal collapse from subversion by alien ideologies and intruders. And that is precisely what America faces today, notwithstanding President Trump’s optimism that we are in a “Golden Age.”

The inversion matrix, like Marxism and derivatives such as Leninism, Maoism, Critical Race Theory (CRT), and DEI has its origin in spiritual depravity. In practice, the operational methodology of the inversion matrix is a kind of mass psychological engineering -- also known as “gaslighting” -- and guilt programming. Such gaslighting and programing involve constant subliminal attacks on traditional values and heritage. These attacks create guilt narratives about colonialism, slavery, privilege, and oppression. The language gets pumped with weaponized terms and labels intended to create a sort of mass narrative groupthink. In addition, when communication utilizes inflammatory labeling -- like racist, Islamophobe, homophobe, transphobe, or “far right” -- to name a few, conversation becomes difficult and pointless. Most people don’t realize that antagonistic language is employed intentionally to shut down conversation, exacerbate division and train people subliminally to self-censor and submit. This is not about correcting injustice; it is about deep state control through the matrix of intimidation, confusion, and demoralization.

A well-designed physical hedge matrix makes it impossible to find a way out. Similarly, the inversion matrix that takes root in the mind undermines common sense and makes critical thinking impossible. Worse, the inversion matrix destroys the individual’s moral compass and promotes groupthink that can lead to criminal behavior.

A two-tiered justice system is also a key inversion matrix and is clearly seen when favored elites are given a pass and pay no penalty for their crimes. In America today, this has resulted in alienation, cynicism, and the weakened rule of law. Government elites and wealthy individuals evade accountability, while others face harsh penalties. As a result, we live with increasing crime and abuse of power in government.

When outsider Donald Trump succeeded in the 2016 upset presidential election against favored candidate Hillary Clinton, a deep state cabal to undermine president-elect Trump was quickly organized by President Barack Obama. Included in that group were: FBI director James Comey, CIA director John Brennan, DNI Director James Clapper and National Security advisor Susan Rice. These very people undertook this unthinkably bold seditious act because they had personally witnessed and experienced the protection of the two-tiered justice system that had become the norm of the inversion matrix.

The deep state wasn’t going to take any chance that Trump could win a second term. Vote manipulation and fraud strategies to suppress the vote count for Trump and increase the count for Biden were conceived and implemented in the seven swing states in 2020. But the work of the inversion matrix did not stop there. A massive media campaign was orchestrated to delegitimize the possibility of vote fraud, resulting in censorship and causing vote fraud to be discredited as conspiracy theory.

Next was the inversion of a people’s protest of questionable election results on January 6, 2021, that was manipulated and spun into the narrative of an insurrection. The real prize, of all these inversion matrix efforts was the installation of Joe Biden as the 46th president. The Biden presidency was a disaster on every front, most notably in the open-borders policy and many other directives and executive orders that were signed by an autopen -- likely controlled by deep state operatives.

Despite Trump’s sweeping comeback victory in 2024, the power of the inversion matrix seems unabated. Compassion is often misdirected and truth is viewed as hate speech. The ultimate inversion is seen in the majority becoming the villain,  with natural-born Americans being portrayed as the intruders compared to illegal aliens. When the very people whose ancestors built the nation, farmed the land, raised the families, and paid the taxes now find themselves apologizing for simply existing we are really in Alice in Wonderland.

The power of the inversion matrix is now on full display in Minnesota where tens of billions of dollars of welfare fraud get overshadowed in the daily news coverage of alleged horrors of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers committed to their job of law enforcement supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Alleged crimes by one group, the Somalis, are explained away as trauma, misunderstanding, or cultural norms. But alleged crimes committed by ICE officers trigger outrage, violence, and riots.

Most Americans have not been able to understand how confusion, chaos, misinformation, and polarization have crept into the institutions that touch their daily lives. Now getting a grasp on the inversion matrix paradigm provides insight, light, and clarity for the path ahead.

Reestablishing normalcy and merit in power structures, roles, problem-solving and truth-seeking would get us back on track, enabling systems to function and operate more fairly and optimally, whether in justice, education, media, public sector governance, or economics and business -- all of which would lead to a more virtuous circle of greater trust, good will, and improved outcomes.

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China Warlords Study Nazis’ Blitzkrieg

American Thinker 

Frank Capra’s WWII war documentary shows us how Nazi Germany sent inconspicuous peaceful-looking cargo ships to all principal ports along the coast of Norway.  While the cargo ships looked normal, they were actually Trojan horses, filled with troops, armaments, and tanks to attack Norway and capture the ports.  Having just overrun Denmark in a mere six hours, the Nazis began their invasion of Norway from both the land and the sea.  Nazi “blitzkrieg,” or “lightning war,” emphasizing rapid surprise attacks to overwhelm the enemy, causing the enemy to be confused and disorganized, gave the Nazis numerous swift victories.  Nazis were highly successful in World War II, rapidly conquering 11 nations.

China’s military leaders have studied these techniques.

Just like the Nazis sent covert cargo ships that were actually military vessels to the main coastal ports of Norway, China on January 19, 2026, launched its first known refitted cargo ship, the Zhongda 79, that has been converted to a weapons system, according to Taiwan’s Taipei Times.  Having advanced radar, missile launchers, and numerous combat drones, the Taipei Times says, “the ‘military-civilian fusion’ strategy of disguising weapons systems within standard shipping containers is a ‘gray zone’ warfare tactic to complicate targeting decisions for Beijing’s opponents.”  The only reason for such a ship being designed and deployed is that this is a covert, offensive, first strike, surprise attack vessel, like the Trojan horse.

China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) also has a “hospital ship,” the Silk Road Ark, currently touring Latin America. The China Daily says that the ship is a “Peace Ark” giving “medical check-up[s] free of charge,” but that is not the view of many Latin Americans.  During its January 2026 visit to Montevideo, Uruguay, a high-level delegation welcomed the PLA Navy ship, including Minister of Defense Sandro Lazo, National Defense Undersecretary Joel Rodriguez, Navy Chief José Elizondo, and Chinese Ambassador Huan Yazhong.  Note: “none of them belong to the health care sector.”

When the ship arrived in Brazil, Brazilian Dr. Francisco Cardoso, who leads the agency of the Federal Council of Medicine in Sao Paulo, stated that this ship was “at least 10 times larger than any similar ship on the market.”  The ship is sailing to various Latin America ports “providing medical care without local authorization.” Cardoso stated, “This is unprecedented, unparalleled in our history, this type of ship docking here.”

Dr. Raphael Camara, a consultant to the Medical Council of Rio de Janeiro stated, “Was there any substance abuse? … What were all those people doing there?  Was biological material collected?  Blood?  Whatever it was, we don’t know,” because the Chinese consul, arriving with military personnel, would not allow Camara to enter the ship.  Cardoso said that this is not normal for this type of inspection to be denied, stating, “they usually allow it, even to show that everything is in order.”  So, is this ship providing unauthorized medical care?  With the history of the China-virus, COVID-19, coming from the Wuhan, China virology lab, perhaps the ship is also unloading who knows what.  Measles?  More China-viruses?

Apparently, the PLA ship’s visit to the country was as a result of a request from the “Chinese Navy to the Brazilian Navy.”  Camara said that the ship’s operation was a “war operation” authorized by the Brazilian Ministry of Defense.  Evan Ellis, Latin America research professor at the U.S. Army War College, said the ship is part of the Chinese naval forces and “it is a military ship, even though it is a hospital ship.”

Photos and reports indicate that the ship has military features.  Cardoso stated, “There was military equipment on board, and not just a little, according to reports from dockworkers.  There was also a lot of communications equipment.”

The ship took part in a joint maritime exercise with the Brazilian and Chinese Navies, demonstrating combat and rescue operations.

This military armed ship has a big red cross on the side, making it difficult to attack in a battle scenario.

The U.S. State Department announced a potential sale of $1.5 billion in equipment to upgrade Peru’s main Navy base, as it is competing with a Chinese-backed “mega-port” just 50 miles away, not to mention the other 37 ports that China owns in Latin America, as well as the fact China controls both ends of the Panama Canal.  These ports “could be used to resupply Chinese warships with weapons or missiles to support combat operations against the United States or flanks in the eastern Pacific.”  Note: Owning 37 ports in Latin America would facilitate rapid deployment of troops and armaments to the Western Hemisphere.

Just to keep the party going, China has also sent the “scientific vessel” Tan Suo Yi Hao to Valparaiso, Chile.  This ship is coming from Australia where it is believed that the Tan Suo Yi Hao used its submarine, the Fendouzhe, “the only submarine in the world capable of diving into the deepest part of the ocean,” to map networks of submarine cable routes which are vital to Australia’s economy and infrastructure.  Mapping these networks would enable an enemy to “identify the best places to attack and cut those networks as part of the ‘war of system destruction,’ with the goal of dismantling an information-based society.”  These cables are crucial for the function of the internet, for example.  Malcolm Davis, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) says that the Tan Suo Yi Hao serves a “military function.”  Why Chile?  Because Chile is the other end of the 14,810-km Humboldt Submarine Cable System“connecting Chile, French Polynesia and Australia, with branches for the possible connection of other countries and territories.”  A coincidence?  Not!

Tan Suo Yi Hao’s voyages are reminiscent of the 2023 CCP spy balloonmapping nuclear missile sites, and the B-2 stealth bomber base when it mysteriously and without permission flew across the United States.

An item in The Hill stated, “China’s military ships and spy submarines should not be welcome in the Western Hemisphere.”

On December 10, 2025, China’s CCTV aired a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) war game simulating combat near Cuba, the Gulf of America, and the Caribbean.  On December 19, 2025, as the Silk Road Ark sailed from Jamaica to Barbados, CCTV aired another Chinese military simulated war game between the PLA and an opposition force.  One image clearly shows combat happening near the Gulf of America, Cuba, and the Caribbean.

The Bible’s book of the Revelation in chapter 14 speaks to a great city called Babylon and says she is fallen “because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”  Then in chapter 18 in verses 10, 17, and 19, the Bible says three times that Babylon was destroyed in “one hour” and all the merchants set off shore and watched her burn.  To be destroyed in one hour tells you that Babylon was attacked by a modern-day version of “blitzkrieg,” for it had to be a surprise attack, a decisive attack, and an attack with overwhelming armaments and scenarios causing the city to be unable to defend itself.  So, Babylon was destroyed by modern-day weapons of a “blitzkrieg” attack.

Is there a connection?

Democrats are Desperate to Win the Midterms — Because They’re Losing Power

American Thinker 

As the United States advances toward the 2030 Census, a structural political realignment is quietly but relentlessly taking shape.

It is not being driven by campaign slogans or cable news theatrics, but by population movement, economic performance, and policy outcomes that are increasingly difficult to ignore. Together, these forces are placing Democrats on the brink of a profound loss of electoral power in the 2030s, one that could permanently reshape the national political map.

Fresh population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau have been analyzedby redistricting experts. The facts indicate a clear and persistent migration away from Democrat strongholds, toward Republican-leaning states in the South and West. When translated into congressional representation, this movement has enormous consequences.

Under multiple projection models, states that reliably vote Republican are positioned to gain House seats and Electoral College votes after 2030. Meanwhile, long-dominant Democrat bastions steadily lose clout.

In one model developed by Carnegie Mellon University redistricting scholar Jonathan Cervas, Texas and Florida are each projected to gain four House seats. Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho each gain one. Meanwhile, California, New York, and Illinois collectively lose eight seats, with additional losses in Oregon, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island.

A parallel estimate from the American Redistricting Project is slightly more conservative but reaches the same fundamental conclusion: electoral power is shifting decisively away from blue states and toward red ones.

This matters because House seats determine Electoral College votes. When the math is applied to presidential elections, the implications are stark.

CNN analyst Harry Enten demonstrated that if current population trends hold through 2030, Democrats would lose seven House seats nationally while Republican-leaning states gain seven. Under those adjusted figures, a Democrat presidential nominee could secure every traditional blue state—plus Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—yet still fall short of the 270 electoral votes required to win. The total would reach only 263.

In contrast, Republicans would enjoy far greater flexibility.

According to projections cited by the National Republican Redistricting Trust, a GOP nominee could plausibly win the White House without carrying a single Rust Belt battleground. He or she would instead rely on strengthened Sun Belt bases. That reality alone represents a dramatic departure from the political geometry of the past three decades.

The underlying driver of this transformation is not mysterious. Americans are moving. And they are not moving randomly.

Since the 2020 Census, the five states with the largest population gains have been Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, and Arizona, all of which voted for Donald Trump in 2024. At the same time, the five states with the worst domestic net migration have been California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, all of which voted for Kamala Harris. This is not a temporary post-pandemic blip. Census estimates through 2025 confirm the pattern is continuing.

The political consequences of this movement are amplified by the economic realities driving it.

Blue states and especially blue metropolitan areas are, by the data, increasingly miserable places to absorb inflationary shocks. Consider a December report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers. States carried by Trump in 2024 averaged 2.5 percent year-over-year inflation as of November 2025, compared with 3.0 percent in states won by Harris. In metropolitan areas, the divide was even sharper. Trump state metros saw inflation of 1.9 percent versus 3.0 percent in Harris ones.

Housing costs tell the most punishing story.

Housing inflation stood at 2.3 percent in Trump state metros compared with 3.9 percent in Harris metros, a disparity attributed to restrictive zoning, burdensome permitting, and chronic underbuilding in blue jurisdictions. In New York City, for instance, average monthly rents reached $5,686 as of December, placing extraordinary strain on working families.

Economic stagnation compounds the pressure.

Moody’s Analytics reported in October that roughly 23 states, plus Washington, D.C., were either in recession or at a high risk of entering one. Economic woes were disproportionately concentrated among blue states like Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Oregon, and Washington. These areas collectively represent nearly one-third of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). California and New York alone account for more than one-fifth of national GDP output, yet both are treading water with minimal growth.

Meanwhile, Republican-governed states are expanding.

Texas recorded 6.3 percent annual income growth in the second quarter of 2025, far exceeding the national average of 2.1 percent. Florida, Utah, and Kentucky posted strong payroll growth and rising employment. This reveals how red states generally offer greater economic opportunity and affordability.

This divergence fuels capital flight. Businesses follow people, and people follow opportunity.

New York residents pay roughly $5,000 more per capita in taxes than the national average and $7,000 more than residents of Florida or Texas. Less than one-quarter of the approximately 500,000 people who left New York City during the pandemic have returned. New York has lost House seats in every decennial reapportionment since 1950. Projections suggest it will lose two more after 2030, while California loses four.

The political feedback loop is brutal. As blue states lose population, they lose representation. As they lose representation, they lose leverage to change national policy. And as economic conditions deteriorate further, more residents leave.

This is why the 2026 midterms loom so large.

Democrats are staring directly at a narrowing window of power. If these demographic and economic trends persist into the early 2030s, the party faces a structurally hostile Electoral College and a House map tilted against it for a generation. That fact raises the stakes for November’s midterms dramatically.

History suggests parties confronted with existential decline do not retreat quietly.

With control of Congress, Democrats would possess the ability to stall legislation, obstruct budgets, block appointments, and paralyze governance. They would wreak havoc and pull out every stop to derail Trump’s administration, along with the Republican brand, as the 2028 presidential election cycle begins. Any fool can see that rank lawfare, procedural warfare, and scorched-earth obstruction become more likely when long-term prospects dim.

This is no exaggeration. It is tactical behavior for a party, specifically the blue one, that understands what the numbers are signaling.

For Republicans, the implication is clear.

Turnout in November is not merely about winning a midterm cycle. It is about preventing a counteroffensive of vandalism by a party confronting the erosion of its power base. Red state growth and economic resilience offer a real model of governance that voters are rewarding with their feet. But that model takes time to show up on congressional maps and in the Electoral College. Furthermore, it can only shape national policy if it has a representative voice on Capitol Hill.

The demographic clock is ticking. The math is shifting. And this year’s fight for Congress, especially the House, is rapidly becoming the front line in a much larger struggle. It is a frenzied clash over what America’s political landscape will look like in the 2030s.

This is the quiet hinge moment of American politics.

Population, money, and misery are moving power south and west. Democrats know it. That is why November matters so much. Turnout shall decide whether blue state decline goes national, or whether voters stop a desperate party from weighing America down with unhinged malice.

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Democrat Presidential Hopeful Has Been Telling Some Weird Lies About His Ancestor and the KKK

Townhall 

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore might have been caught lying again after a report suggested that his tale about his great-grandfather could be completely false.

Moore often tells a dramatic family story about his grandfather, claiming he was forced to flee Charleston, South Carolina, as a boy in the 1920s because his great-grandfather had angered the Ku Klux Klan by preaching sermons against racism.

The governor said his great-grandfather and grandfather narrowly escaped lynching before taking refuge in Jamaica. It has been central to Moore’s political image and his supposed opposition to racism.

Yet, a Washington Free Beacon report indicates this might not have happened. The report notes that Moore first told the story in a 2014 memoir and “has since retold it countless times.”

The Beacon argues that Moore’s account of his great-grandfather’s relocation is “flatly contradicted by historical records and is almost certainly false. The author lays out documentary evidence that does not support the story’s details.

Church archives and newspaper records show that Moore’s great-grandfather, Rev. Josiah Johnson Thomas, was “transferred” in an “orderly and public” process from the Church of the Redeemer in Pineville, South Carolina, to Jamaica on December 13, 1924.

The reason for the move was that the reverend was set to replace a Jamaican pastor who had just passed away, according to the records, which showed “no suggestion that the move was hurried or secret,” according to The Beacon.

Even amid “copious documentation” of Thomas’ life, there was “no mention of trouble with the Klan,” and the KKK “never had a chapter operating out of Pineville.”

Episcopal records and a 900-page diocesan history contain “no record of Moore’s great-grandfather preaching for racial equality, any record of a conflict with the Ku Klux Klan, or any record that he said or did anything noteworthy.”

This is not the first time Moore has made questionable claims about his history. He also allegedly lied on a White House fellowship application and portrayed himself as a “foremost expert” on radical Islam under the George W. Bush administration.

Gov. Moore also falsely claimed he was inducted into the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame, an organization that does not exist. He also said he received a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan. This was also a lie.

Moore is one of several high-profile Democrats that is being looked at to run for president in 2028. But the fact that his many lies are being publicly debunked, it might be better for him to sit this one out.

Here Are The Top 5 Takeaways From Georgia’s Suspect 2020 Election

The Election Oversight Group’s 250-page report points to incidents that appear to exceed election worker incompetence and ‘clerical errors’.

The Federalist

More than five years after Fulton County, Georgia, became the epicenter of suspect election administration, it appears federal law enforcement officials are taking a long overdue closer look at what really went down in the rigged 2020 election. And by the close of business Tuesday, we could get a better idea of the case the FBI made to a Georgia magistrate judge to obtain the search warrant behind its Jan. 28 raid of the Atlanta-area warehouse where county elections officials house voting records. 

Judge J.P. Boulee gave the Department of Justice until 5 p.m. Tuesday to publicly disclose the affidavit justifying the FBI’s seizure of some 700 boxes of ballots, tabulator tapes, electronic ballot images, and Fulton County’s voter rolls. 

Elected officials from the Democrat stronghold have expressed outrage over the raid and the federal investigation into election they insist President Donald Trump unequivocally lost to then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden. While that may be the case, a shadow of “irregularities” has hung over Fulton County election administration since a post-Election Day surge of unexpected ballots gave Biden enough votes to win the critical swing state. And no amount of spin from liberal voter election groups, Democrat politicians, and the usual useful idiots in corporate media has been able to cover the cloud. 

‘Callous Disregard’

One thing is for certain: Fulton County elections officials are extremely anxious to get their election records back. 

“Knowing that the federal government can physically seize and rummage through election records, long after the election has been certified, will predictably chill voter participation and undermine voters’ confidence in the security and secrecy of their ballots,” states an  emergency motion filed on behalf of Robb Pitts, chairman of the seven-member Fulton County Board of Commissioners. He claims federal law enforcement acted with “callous disregard for Fulton County voters’ First Amendment rights.” 

But what if Fulton County election officials acted with “callous disregard” for the voting rights of Georgians and their fellow Americans? What if myriad complaints, including chain-of-custody problems, missing tabulator tapes, a final vote count that defied the secretary of state’s expectations and was inconsistent with a subsequent recount and audit? Perhaps the records the FBI hauled out of that warehouse provide some answers to some critical questions that have long lingered after the lie that the Nov. 3, 2020 presidential election was “the most secure in American history” collapsed. 

Perhaps there are reasons beyond claims of weaponized justice fueled by a Trump political vendetta that Fulton County officials seem so antsy to get their records back. 

A report from the Election Oversight Group takes a deep dive into the many “irregularities” and inconsistencies that plagued election administration in Georgia’s most populous county in 2020. 

As The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman reminded, the problems and questions popped up long before the general election. Fulton County, she wrote, confronted long lines and voting machine malfunctions in the primary that led even the “election denier”- alleging New York Times to describe the situation as “a full-scale meltdown.” So why should it be all that surprising that Fulton County, dealing with many thousands more ballots on Election Day, would continue to fail in overseeing the vote? 

The Election Oversight Group’s 250-page report points to incidents that appear to exceed election worker incompetence and “clerical errors,” as the state’s top election official put it. Here are the top 5 findings from the investigation. 

‘It Wouldn’t Probably Be Enough’

The report’s overview notes the beaming confidence of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the morning after the election. Appearing on the Today Show,  Raffensperger said a record 4.7 million Georgia voters cast a ballot in the election. More importantly, the secretary of state said only 2 percent of the ballots remained to be counted. Trump, at that time, led Biden by nearly 104,000 votes, seemingly more than enough for a Georgia win. Raffensperger, at the time, said about 94,000 ballots had yet to be counted. 

“We can see where the candidates are right now in both presidential, congressional, senatorial. When you look at how many votes are out there, even if one of the candidates got 100 percent it probably wouldn’t be enough to move it on way or another,” the elections official told the Today Show crew. He should know, the report notes. The secretary could see the numbers in real time through the state elections database. 

Raffensperger added that his office would wait until everything was done. 

When the dust settled, the confident secretary turned out to be very wrong. The final vote count — at least then — was an incredible 5.023 million. Between the time Fulton County’s polls closed on Election Day and the final ballot was tallied,  the number of absentee ballots soared from 74,000 to more than 148,000, according to the report. 

Trump went from the verge of winning a key battleground state to losing it. Just like that. 

“At the time of this writing, no known explanation has been provided to justify” the surge in ballots, the report states. 

Chain Trouble 

The report details a significant chain of custody problem. All 148,000-plus absentee ballots that flooded into the system were “accepted and counted without first performing mandatory signature verification,” according to the review. So the documented history of more than half of those ballots can’t be established, the investigators assert. There were tens of thousands of ballots that came into the State Farm Arena on or after Election Day in “unsecured mail carts,” defying critical chain of custody requirements, the report contends. 

Missing Tapes 

As The Federalist reported, an attorney representing Fulton County admitted in December that county election officials failed to properly sign more than 100 “tabulator tapes”, amounting to about 315,000 votes cast during Georgia’s early-voting period. Election officials must daily note the “zero-tape” to confirm the count started fresh. Same with the “closing tapes” from ballots scanners, the record of the final vote tally for the day. 

State investigators were unable to find any “zero tapes” recorded during the county’s early voting period in the 2020 general election, State Elections Board member Jan Johnston said at the board’s meeting in December. 

The report on the election claims that “none of the statutorily required accounting and chain of custody records exist to support the entirety of early voting.” 

Counting Conundrum 

The number of absentee ballots counted doesn’t match the number of credited voters, the report notes. It draws from Fulton County and state records that show 148,318 ballots were counted in the 2020 election, although only 125,784 voters were recorded as casting an absentee ballot. That’s a difference of 22,534 votes between the absentee ballots tallied and the number of individuals given credit for voting. 

“Remember:  the margin between President Trump and Joe Biden was 11,779 votes…and that was the THIRD certified number and didn’t match either of the first two counts….the counties could not get their numbers to match from the first count to the second to the third…..

@GaSecofState Brad Raffensperger has NEVER explained that…,” Cleta Mitchell, election law expert and founder of the Election Integrity Network, recently posted on X. 

‘Reason to Distrust the Election Outcome’

The report notes some troubling findings from a review of Fulton County’s practices and procedures in the 2020 presidential election. Election auditing specialist Philip Stark, a professor in Berkeley’s Department of Statistics, found that, while there is no indication of widespread fraud, “there is reason to distrust the election outcome.” He found the two machine counts and the manual “audit” tallies “disagree substantially,” even about the number of ballots cast. 

“Some ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, were included in the original count at least twice; some were included in the machine recount at least thrice,” Stark wrote. “Moreover, most voters voted with demonstrably untrustworthy ballot-marking devices, so even a perfect handcount or audit would not necessarily reveal who really won.”

He added that “no procedure can limit that risk without a trustworthy record of the vote.”

So much for Raffensperger’s claims that “Georgia has the most secure elections in the country.” The Republican who would very much like to be Georgia’s next governor has shrugged off such concerns, insisting that “a clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.”

Stark’s review raises trust issues that Raffensperger would rather voters not dwell on. 

“The 2020 U.S. Presidential election in Georgia illustrates unrecoverable errors that can render recounts and audits ‘security theater’ that distract from the more serious problems rather than justifying trust,” the election audit expert wrote.