“Mr. Niesse -
The claim that there is insufficient support for True the Vote’s allegation of widespread abuse of then-nascent ballot drop box voting during the 2020 General Election stems from a fundamental misunderstanding amongst members of the media.
The evidence True the Vote made available to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation shortly after the 2020 General Election cannot be understood to be like records stored somewhere. It consisted of massive quantities of electronic data that could only be appreciated and understood when you had multiple servers processing it and visually displaying how the information intersected in real-time. This is called geospatial analysis.
True the Vote provided this information to the FBI, which rendered it available to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation at the time. The GBI consequently has ready access to the summaries and underlying data, and could reconstruct it, but it declines to do that. It is in that sense that there is nothing more for True the Vote to provide that it has not already provided to the GBI.”
In addition to what was originally provided to the FBI and GBI in 2021, we provided three written complaints, with documentation, to the Secretary of State, and over 6,000 documents to the SEB.
The state was unwilling to provide whistleblower protection in 2021, unwillingly to examine our data while it was still set up in active databases, and unwilling to act on the summary data which it could easily have done. Now, three years later, after the statute of limitations has expired on any election crimes, its apparent that the SEB’s interest is not in investigating. Rather, it is in silencing citizens from speaking out, lest they get the same treatment our group is now enduring. It is outrageous.
Mind you, at any point in this odyssey, the GBI could have gotten an administrative warrant to have the summarized cell phone data deanonymized and begin their investigation. There is nothing stopping them from taking that action even now. They have all the information they need. We are not law enforcement. It is up to them to do their jobs. As civilians, we cannot do more than what we have done.