There's a thread circulating showing pictures of piles of ballots in Fulton County. Let me explain what you're actually seeing:
How many people request absentee ballots? How many people require a provisional ballot at a polling location? You never know. So you print excess.
The excess ballots are assigned precincts. Why? Because there are local races too and some precincts have local race X and others have local race Y. So you need a massive pile of extra ballots all coded by precinct.
At the end of each election cycle, the ballots are all piled up and shredded. This includes the ballots from the primary. You can't destroy the ballots till the cycle is over and the cycle is over after the general election.
So a warehouse full of plastic wrapped, coded ballots is not fraud. The fraud would be if those ballots were not in a central depository ready to be shredded.
It's great to have investigators diving deep to figure out what's happening. But it is not great to be misled by someone who doesn't actually know what they are talking about.
There's no fraud there. Again, you wouldn't have massive piles of unmarked ballots in there was fraud. Those would have been cast and they'd now be in a separate location.
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