SEB Complaint 2023-025 has been Delayed Again. Will it ever see the Light of Day? Raffy-Gate is Exploding! We Must Hold All of Politicians and Administrators, Accountable!

The Truthful details regarding what happened with Rossi/James and SEB 2023-025

Social Media is wreaking havoc on the truth and doubling-down on confusion, as usual. Time to set the record straight.

At no time, have I found any credible information that the recent breaking story from the “Leading Report” is true. This publication stated several days ago that “Governor Kemp’s legal staff has notified Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that 17,852 invalid 2020 votes were counted in Fulton County. Governor Kemp has done no such thing. It seems someone maybe confused this with the now legendary complaint SEB-2023-025, which is/was to be discussed by the board on Wednesday Dec 20, 2023.

I have known Perry Attorney Jack James for more than 20 years. I began writing a conservative column in early 2021 in the Houston Home Journal in Perry when I received a phone call from Joe Rossi and Jack, asking if I would be interested in writing a column regarding what they had discovered on the Secretary of State’s website. It was their unearthing of the train-wreck from the 2020 Presidential Election in Fulton County in their Risk-Limiting Audit (RLA) that was their concern. I, of course, merrily obliged, and our publisher decided it merited front page coverage. I have stayed the course on reporting relevant info for Joe and Jack in this column, to present.

I have addressed much of this in recent articles, but here’s a brief up-to-date synopsis that will hopefully eliminate any confusion. Now would be a excellent time to cue the circus music.

Mr. Rossi and Mr. James’s original investigation in 2021 initiated a series of events with the State Election Board (SEB) that resulted in an official complaint with the Board: SEB 2021-181. That particular complaint was found to have had merit, and was passed to the Attorney General’s office for further investigation. This resulted into a consent decree issued in mid-2023 between the AG’s office, the SEB, and Fulton County. It was basically a slap on the wrist to Fulton County. They were forced to implement training for future Risk-Limiting audits, promise to do better, and utter a few words of penance. All of this was achieved by the Attorney General’s office, a mere three years after its occurrence.

Mr. Rossi and Mr. James at some point had filed an addendum to this complaint, attempting to require the Georgia Secretary of State to be a respondent, since he had violated OCGA21-2-499(a). The code required the SOS to report errors founds in certified returns to the counties and require corrections. No one in state government had pushed for Raffensperger to be accountable. Legislators have told me that their letters and emails to him continue to go unanswered. Apparently, Raffensperger is untouchable, except maybe to George Soros and a few other corporate fascists.

Recall from my earlier column that this Consent Decree for SEB 2021-181, incredibly, was voted on by the SEB on June 21st of this year, WITHOUT the committee members having read the decree nor having a physical copy of the decree. We established this fact via open-records requests in which we obtained relevant emails from the SEB members. We found that the Attorney General’s office was unquestionably a player in this game.

Call this “dysfunction”, call it hanky-panky, or call it something even more egregious. I’m a “if it walks like a duck-guy”, so I have a strong opinion on this matter. I’ve watched this nonsense for three years straight. Pardon if I’m a tad bit cynical.

Also recall this paragraph from an earlier column:

Meanwhile, acting Chairman Matt Mashburn recently notified Joe Rossi of a change in the Board’s overall policy. Board Member Mashburn stated in a recent email, “I do note that it is the current practice of the Board that Complainants do not present during the Investigator’s report like was done at the March 16, 2022 hearing. Accordingly, I wanted to alert you that the practices of the Board have changed in the meantime so as to not catch you unaware.”

In essence, Mr. Rossi threw a wrench in the spokes of the State Board at the March 16, 2022 meeting, so they stopped allowing the complainants to speak when the investigator presented to the board. My recollection of that day was that it wasn’t very pretty for the SEB nor the investigator who reported.

Let’s be clear:

At no time was the Board going to allow Mr. Rossi to testify at the coming Board meeting on Tuesday/Wednesday (Dec 19/20th) during the scheduled presentation of SEB 2023-025 by Secretary of State Investigator Vince Zagorin, as some have stated. He was never asked, because he was told in 2022 that it was against the rules.

Mr. Rossi did receive a letter from the State Board in mid November of 2023 notifying him that he was welcomed to be in attendance for this December meeting in which SEB 2023-025 would be presented, but his attendance was not required. Here is the important part of this letter: “The Board has separated complaints that will be heard at the meeting into two groups: those in which investigators found a violation and those in which they did not. This matter is in the violation found category.”

This fact has now been established and it becomes a very serious issue: The State Election Board admitted there were violations in SEB 2023-025 in their November 2023 letter to Mr. Rossi.

There were two agendas issued for the December 19th SEB meeting. The first agenda listed SEB 2023-025 in the “violation found category”. The second agenda, released in early December and superseding the first agenda, moved SEB2023-025 to a new category called “Violation Cases Recommend for Letter of Instruction or Referral to the Attorney General’s office.”

This past Friday afternoon, Mr. Rossi received an email from SEB Administrative Assistant Alexandra Hardin stating, “Please accept this email notice that the case SEB2023-025 has been continued from the agenda, and will NOT be heard at the December 19 SEB meeting.”

This does not mean the Attorney General’s office has received it and is opening up an investigation. No. This means that the disintegrating can is being kicked down the road. Again. SEB2023-025 will not be heard at the Dec 19/20th meeting, according to the letter received on Friday December 15th.

Here’s what I wrote several months ago:

“On another front from what we are hearing, the investigation for SEB complaint 2023-025 is finished but “they” simply weren’t ready to release the results in the October 2023 meeting. Supposedly, results are to be released in the December 2023 SEB meeting. They cannot satisfactorily answer this complaint without exposing irrefutable cheating in Fulton County and the ubiquitous and egregious cover-up by our State Government entities. I don’t have to try to read the tea leaves, as I already know the results. Do you honestly believe they will expose the Secretary of State or the Attorney General? It will be very interesting to see the whole new set of lies they concoct for more cover.”

I’m not a prophet. We know who we are dealing with. We’ve all watched this show for three years. They will not be held to account until We the People demand that they do what is right, fair, and honest.

It was at the March 16, 2022 hearing when Mr. Rossi began asking the Board to hold SOS Raffensberger accountable for his actions. He inquired with the Board no fewer than eight times since about holding accountable this Casper-the-ghost-like figure with a sinister side, who holds one of the most powerful offices in this State. In July of 2023, then-SEB Chairman Duffey asked Sarah Koth, the investigations director at the SOS office, to open up a case on this complaint. SOS Legal Counsel Charlene McGowan told Judge Duffey in an email dated, 7/21/22, “Judge Duffey, I understand that you have asked Sarah to open a new case on Mr. Rossi’s complaint against the Secretary of State’s office regard the posting of the county-level Risk Limiting Audit results for the 2020 Presidential Election…..I have instructed our investigations division that this office will not be opening up a case on this complaint, for several reasons.”

So the Legal Counsel for the Secretary of State’s office has the power to shut down an investigation regarding clear and definable legal violations by the SOS office. Got it. The State Election Board has the power to go after any entity that violates Georgia Election Code, except the Secretary of State. Understood.

Next McGowan pleads to Judge Duffey to trust her concerning the shut down of this complaint: “I trust with this information that the Board will inform Mr. Rossi that no case will be opened on this matter”. Judge Duffey does not accept McGowan’s plea. In an email dated 8/6/23 to Mr. Rossi, Judge Duffey states, “We (the SEB) are evaluating our options on how we can proceed in this matter.”

Sounds like a good ‘ole fashion power struggle, eh?

Before the end of August, Judge Duffey resigned. Why do you suppose Retired Federal Judge William S. Duffey resigned after being at the helm of the SEB less than 14 months. Gee, wonder what happened?

Why would I ever trust another government investigation?

The acting-chair (for the second time) Mashburn states in a certified letter to Rossi on 9/14/23: “there was no deadline for when the Board would decide the matter other than that the matter would be diligently, thoroughly and responsibly considered…..the matter (of the SEB investigating the SOS) is one that is unprecedented in Georgia’s entire history….”.

Blah Blah Blah.

Amazingly, on October 20, 2023, Mashburn sent another letter to Rossi inviting him to write a “term paper” and brief the board on why they have explicit authority to investigate the Secretary of State.

Rossi responded with a proposal, essentially telling Mashburn to do his own homework: “…I have researched this matter thoroughly and have determined that the Board does have this authority. It is not my job to make the final ruling on this matter as I did not stand up the SEB nor write the law regarding SEB authority”

More delay tactics.

The board decided to open SEBBI-2023-001 obviously due to Mr. Rossi’s continuous pressure of holding Raffensperger accountable. This will be discussed and is on the agenda early for Tuesday morning, December 19th. Recall that SEBBI stands for State Election Board, Board Inquiry. Mr. Rossi has NOT been asked to discuss this at the meeting. Obviously, it is extremely important to the people of this State, that this Board holds Brad Raffensperger accountable…..but no one here is holding their breath.

I have a life-long friend that cracks-up when I ask “who fact checks the fact-checkers?”. I’m gonna add another euphemism to this list. Who the heck is watching the State Election Board, the SOS, and the Attorney General and holding them accountable to the people of this State? WHO, WHEN, and HOW? We must have answers! We CANNOT rely on other entities within the State and Federal Government to hold them accountable. The citizens of the State of Georgia MUST TAKE CHARGE and DEMAND CHANGE. State Legislators will promise the world. What have they done?

An official ruling by the State Election Board that complaint SEB2023-025 is true and valid would destroy Fani Willis’ charges against the 15 defendants in Fulton County, for starters.

The dominoes would begin to fall on a national scale.

The powers-that-be would will do everything in their power to prevent Trump from becoming President a second time. I can guarantee they would do the same on validating SEB2023-025. I know it. You know it. Everyone else knows it.

The State Board only has a $500k budget. They borrow their investigators from the Secretary of State. But the intent of the State Legislators in passing SB202 was to give more power to the SEB and less to the Secretary of State. They removed the SOS as a voting member of the SEB, keeping him an ex-officio member only, of the board. The board remained under auspices of the Secretary of State’s office. Didn’t the State Legislature do a wonderful job with their kabuki theater hearings while debating SB202? They fixed little and made many of these matters regarding election law, even worse.

Remember? Atlanta lost the MLB All-Star game in 2021 because SB202 was so racist and egregious.

Hogwash. It was all a costly ruse. Everything seems to be a costly ruse. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

This December 19 and 20th meeting at the State Capitol will be interesting. I will be in attendance with Mr. Rossi and plan to speak truth to the Board at the beginning of the session. Please plan to come to support the search for truth. We cannot afford to lose this battle.

This sums it up nicely:

“We will know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false”—William Casey, former director of the CIA, February 1981.