The Daily Fuckup

Trump allies were still using Georgia as a favored backdrop for election-fraud claims on Aug. 22, 2021, even though the official results had already been set and nothing in the public record had changed them. Georgia’s Secretary of State posted the certified results for the November 2020 general election, and the state’s historical results page separately lists the January 5, 2021 federal runoff as its own certified election. ([results.sos.ga.gov](https://results.sos.ga.gov/results/public/Georgia/elections/2020NovGen?utm_source=openai))

The claims being repeated in August were not backed by a new state finding, audit result, or court ruling. Georgia officials had already said the presidential race audit upheld the original outcome, and the Justice Department later described the fraud allegations in related litigation as unsupported. ([sos.ga.gov](https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/news/historic-first-statewide-audit-paper-ballots-upholds-result-presidential-race?utm_source=openai))

Some of the recycled talking points centered on Fulton County, including drop-box and ballot-transfer paperwork stories that had already been checked against county records. In June 2021, Georgia Public Broadcasting reported that Fulton elections staff located all but a small number of the forms requested and that the paperwork issue did not show ballots were missing or illegitimate. ([gpb.org](https://www.gpb.org/news/2021/06/17/fact-check-fulton-county-not-missing-ballots-or-hundreds-of-drop-box-custody-forms?utm_source=openai))

The result was the same on Aug. 22 as it had been since certification: Georgia’s 2020 general election results stood, the January runoff results were also certified, and the public claims did not come with evidence that changed either outcome. ([results.sos.ga.gov](https://results.sos.ga.gov/results/public/Georgia/elections/2020NovGen?utm_source=openai))