Georgia state officials are indicating a willingness to decertify the results of the November 2020 election if significant election irregularity is shown to have occurred.
Georgia is currently conducting a review of ballots cast in the November 3 election. In the course of that review it has been discovered that tens of thousands of counterfeit ballots were cast. State officials estimate the number of the ballots to be between 17,000 and 34,000.
If that finding is confirmed Georgia state officials say they are ready to move to decertify the electors that voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for U.S. President and Vice President respectively.
“Then what I think we can do…and I’m not attorney, I think we can ask for our sixteen Electoral College votes back and park them here and just say we don’t want them as part of the vote,” Georgia State Senator Brandon Beach (R) told radio host John Fredericks this week.
“And then if Arizona did that and if a couple of other states did that and it got below 270 the Twelfth Amendment would kick in and Congress would have to act,” Beach added alluding to the Twelfth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which says that if no presidential candidate reaches the required 270-vote threshold in a presidential contest Congress would then vote for president and vice president through what’s known as a contingent election.
Interestingly Beach also alluded to a U.S. Senate race in Georgia being decertified as well which would shift the balance of power in that body from the Democrats to Republicans.
Election integrity activists have been litigating a court case for the right to inspect ballots cast in Fulton County, the state’s largest, since December. That inspection is likely to take place within the next 1-2 months the plaintiffs believe.
Georgia state officials have up until now been the only state officials to lay out a scenario in which their presidential electoral votes would be decertified.
A full forensic audit of absentee ballots is also taking place in Maricopa County, Arizona, that state’s largest. The results of that inspection are due out this summer as well. Unconfirmed reports also cite significant levels of fraud discovered during that review.
Less than 12,000 votes currently separate President Donald Trump from Joe Biden in Georgia and less than 11,000 votes currently separate Mr. Trump from Biden in Arizona.