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Is a batch of 950 military ballots for Joe Biden in Fulton County, Georgia, proof of election fraud?

By Dana Ford
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A social media post making that claim says ballots were in sequential order but ballots aren't numbered, according to a county spokesperson.

Also, the fact that all 950 ballots in one batch went for Joe Biden can be explained by the tallying process rather than by fraud. A different batch went 100% to Donald Trump. A possible explanation is that one or more of the counters in a hand-count audit chose to tally Biden or Trump ballots in separate batches.

Overall in Fulton County, a decidedly Democratic county, the audit showed that 266 military voters cast their ballots for Trump, versus 1,474 for Biden.

A spokesman for the Georgia secretary of state's office told Lead Stories the claim of fraud "is baseless. This is just another case of people who don't understand how elections work assuming there's fraud instead of learning the process."

See a full discussion of this at Lead Stories
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Sources
State of Georgia Historic First Statewide Audit Of Paper Ballots Upholds Result Of Presidential Race
State of Georgia Georgia Audit Spreadsheet
Georgia Public Broadcasting What Is Happening With Fulton County's Absentee Ballots?
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Lead Stories is a fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015. It scouts for trending stories, images, videos and posts that contain false information in order to fact check them as quickly as possible. It actively monitors the fake-news ecosystem and doesn’t wait for reader tips or reports before getting started on a story.
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Fact briefs are short, credibly sourced summaries that offer “yes/no” answers in response to claims found online. They rely on publicly available, often primary source data and documents. Fact briefs are created by contributors to Gigafact —a nonprofit project looking to expand participation in fact-checking and protect the democratic process. See all fact briefs here.