Here is one article with one of many photos:
'We have shredded nothing'
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DDED BALLOTS IN GEORGIA?
5:12 PM 01/07/2021 Brad Sylvester | Fact Check Editor
An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows shredded ballots that were found in Georgia during the two Senate runoff elections.
Facebook/Screenshot
Verdict: False
The photo shows paper waste produced during the process of opening absentee ballots, not shredded ballots, according to a Fulton County spokesperson. A top official with the Georgia secretary of state’s office has previously refuted claims that ballots in Georgia were being shredded.
Fact Check:
The screen grab of a tweet containing an image of boxes full of shredded paper started circulating amid the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia. The Associated Press called the races for Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff early Wednesday morning.
“Our team is in Georgia,” reads the screen grabbed tweet from Twitter user @AmyCoello. “They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes. Police came as well. They wanted to confiscate phones with evidence. Here is just the first few photos.”
In her tweet, Coello does not identify where in Georgia the allegedly shredded ballots were found. She did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment regarding her claim.
Another version of the claim suggests the shredded ballots were found in Fulton County, where Atlanta is located. BBC News, which debunked the allegation that the photo shows shredded ballots, identified the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County as the location where the picture was taken.
Fulton County spokesperson Jessica Corbitt-Dominguez told the DCNF in an email that “we have shredded nothing.” (RELATED: Did Georgia’s Fulton County Identify 132,00 ‘Likely Ineligible’ Ballots?)
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What do we learn from that article? We learn from official that they shredded nothing, which was clearly not true. But what else? We read from this and other articles defending the shredding that it was envelopes that were shredded, not ballots. Is that true? Maybe, but what does that reveal? If they were shredding envelopes with signatures on them for verification of the legitimacy of the ballots, then all proof of the ballot's legitimacy is lost forever once the envelope is shredded.
This is about signature verifications of ballots:
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Analysis: A Lack of Signature Verification in Georgia Damages Recount Validity
November 16, 2020 Admin
by Robert Romano
Georgia is undertaking a hand recount of ballots cast in the 2020 election in an effort to ensure ballot integrity, but with absentee mail-in ballots already separated from their envelopes, it may be impossible to pull back any votes even if they were cast by ineligible voters.
Why?
Because under state law, a voter’s signature goes on the envelope containing the secret ballot, not the ballot itself. As a result, even if a number of voters are found to have cast votes that were ineligible, there will not be an easy way to remedy the damage that was caused.
Making matters worse, the state of Georgia arbitrarily changed state law on signature verification of absentee ballots via a March 2020 judicial consent decree with Georgia Democrats — without ever going to the state legislature. It changed the statutory requirement that the signature must match the signature on the voter registration card to simply matching the signature on the absentee ballot application.
State law says the signature must match either the voter registration card or the most recent updated registration card and the absentee ballot application, “The registrar or clerk shall then compare the identifying information on the oath with the information on file in his or her office, shall compare the signature or mark on the oath with the signature or mark on the absentee elector’s voter registration card or the most recent update to such absentee elector’s voter registration card and application for absentee ballot or a facsimile of said signature or mark taken from said card or application…”
