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In a stunning turn of events on Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections warehouse at 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road in Union City, Georgia. They reportedly seized approximately 700 boxes of election materials associated with the 2020 General Election. The items to be seized are listed in Attachment B of the search warrant pictured below:

This is a huge victory for a small group of citizen-volunteers in the state, including Garland Favorito (Voterga), David Cross, and Phillip Davis, whose research on the 2020 election is cited in several complaints and can be found on his website, ballotassure.com.

However, two men, Joseph Rossi and Kevin Moncla deserve special mention. It is highly unlikely the election materials would have been seized without their dogged and sharp investigatory skills. This unlawful behavior has been going on for years and would surely have continued. Ironically, the FBI went after Moncla in late 2023 for daring to question Georgia’s 2020 election. Two members of the State Election Board have been supportive of their efforts, veteran board member Dr. Jan Johnston and Salleigh Grubbs, who was recently seated on the board.

Johnston has been one of the few in an official position to subpoena the ballots and other key 2020 election records. In fact, she subpoenaed Fulton County for the records in October 2024, a request that was met with repeated obstruction until today. According to Moncla, “Fulton County unlawfully failed to preserve the ballot images for all in-person voting” and Johnston believes the only way to investigate what happened in 2020 is to inspect the original ballots and associated records housed in that warehouse. No one in the state would cooperate with Johnston’s subpoena so Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice sued for the same records on October 30, 2025.

This latest development is good news for Joseph Rossi and Kevin Moncla’s team because they have faced repeated obstacles in pursuit of the truth about the 2020 election, including Fulton County’s continued refusal to produce the records. Rossi’s presentation at the January 21, 2026 State Election Board meeting seems to have broken the dam for the pair. His presentation cited longstanding discrepancies documented in the complaint and argued that unresolved issues from SEB2021-181 and subsequent investigations could undermine public confidence if left unexamined.

Rossi’s complaint verified and referred to the SEB by Georgia’s Governor, centers on discrepancies in ballot and vote totals reported in the Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) report,––specifically that the audit contained 6,691 fictitious ballots and votes that were not sufficiently addressed in the original investigation. This has never been corrected.

After years of contentious back-and-forth with multiple SEB members, including the SEB Chair John Fervier who replaced Chairman Duffy in 2024 after Duffey was forced to resign.  In prior meetings, Fervier actively obstructed their case but seemed to admit in the January 21 meeting that he may have been wrong to do so. Notably, in spring 2022 Raffensperger admitted Fulton County scanned ballots twice.

In addition to gaining cooperation from Fervier, Rossi broke new ground when he presented a recently unearthed November 19, 2020 email suggesting that key election officials knew of serious hand-count errors and inaccuracies on the very day Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger publicly announced the hand count had been completed accurately.

The November 2020 email was sent by Michael Pendergast to Fulton County Deputy Director of Elections Nadine Williams, with Elections Director Richard Barron copied. Information on Pendergast is sparse, though Moncla says he was a CTCL “Elections Group” hire, a significant fact that may end up explaining a few things down the road.

In his email, Pendergast explicitly acknowledges duplicate ballots and other errors and includes an attachment itemizing the problems—then brushes them off as “just some quick adjustments/corrections.” Questioning why none of the three raised alarms at the time despite knowing the results were inaccurate, Rossi urged the board to open an investigation or pursue a complaint into why the discrepancies were not disclosed when they occurred. The email and attachment are pictured below:

After watching the board meeting, I asked Rossi which concerns he believes readers should focus on going forward. His overarching concern is that his complaint has been unreasonably delayed. Even worse, is the fact that he and others were not allowed a contemporaneous rebuttal at the May 7, 2024 SEB meeting to SOS Attorney Charlene McGowan’s presentation or to the remarks of her investigators. Rossi contends that had he been allowed to rebut her remarks, he could have readily challenged her claims on multiple fronts.

Rossi claims duplicate ballot images exist and, crucially, were counted, not merely duplicated as files. He asserted that each successful scan produces:

• a ballot image with a unique filename and timestamp, and
• an “audit mark”/interpretation record showing how the ballot was read,
• and that these correspond to the Cast Vote Record (CVR)—therefore, when a ballot has two distinct scans (two filenames/timestamps), it yields two counted records.

He stated an initial figure of 3,125 ballots double-scanned and counted twice, later updated to about 3,930.

In addition, Rossi described what he framed as a discrepancy between a machine count total of around 528,000, and a later “batches loaded” report around 511,000 (roughly 17,000 short), and asserted this shortfall may have created pressure to “make totals match,” with speculation that this discrepancy could have driven:

• double scanning,
• scanning unlawful ballots, or
• tabulating ballots lacking corresponding ballot images

Most importantly, Rossi argues that the board—and the public—should keep their attention on the following issues going forward. In his view, both Fulton County and the State Election Board allowed Secretary of State attorney Charlene McGowan to advance three misleading narratives tied to his complaint:

1. “No proof” of double-counting. McGowan asserted in the May 7, 2024 meeting that the Secretary of State’s office could not “prove or verify” that the ballots in question were counted twice, even though Rossi and his investigators say they knew otherwise.
2. “Clerical error” explanation: McGowan also portrayed the double-scanning as a mere clerical mistake. Rossi has evidence showing that claim is false but was never allowed to rebut her claims because of Fervier and others.
3. Missing ballot images: Rossi’s complaint maintains that 17,852 ballot images remain missing. The records seized by the FBI today are the very records that may finally expose the truth.

The idea that the double-scanning of the ballots was a clerical error is demonstrably wrong, according to Rossi’s complaint.  Rossi demonstrated in the January 21 meeting how the ballots were double- scanned. His demonstration allegedly showed that the duplicate ballots were not caused by a simple re-scan clerical error as McGowan contended, but by “intentional human intervention.”

Rossi says ballots were picked from various batches from various locations within those batches (taken from the middle or the bottom, etc.) Those ballots were then reordered, then compiled, and run as a new batch through a different scanner on a different day.

The idea that the double-scanning of the ballots was a clerical error is demonstrably wrong, according to Rossi’s complaint.  Rossi demonstrated in the January 21 meeting how the ballots were double- scanned. His demonstration allegedly showed that the duplicate ballots were not caused by a simple re-scan clerical error as McGowan contended, but by “intentional human intervention.”

Rossi says ballots were picked from various batches from various locations within those batches (taken from the middle or the bottom, etc.) Those ballots were then reordered, then compiled, and run as a new batch through a different scanner on a different day.

Timeline: Who Knew What and When?

• Fulton County knew on December 19, 2020
• “Raffensperger knew somewhere between December 19, 2020 and February 22, 2022,” according to Rossi.
• On February 9, 2021 Gabriel Sterling’s email to Rossi states that “all of the tally sheets have been available online on the SOS website for nearly two months.” When Rossi reviewed the tally sheets for Houston County and Fulton County, he found errors and told Sterling that the “Batch Tally Sheets showed 246,922 votes,” falling “far short of the final vote count for Fulton County at 525,283.” Referring to Fulton’s RLA Report on the same day, Sterling stated, “We know with 100% certainty that the ballots were not tallied multiple times because the hand re-tally showed that.”
• Sterling responded on February 24, 2021, stating he “reviewed the physical batch sheets” and stated that “not all documents were scanned to digital files. We are in the process of scanning those documents. We expect to update our website before the end of the week.”
• At a Jan. 6 hearing (13:00 minute mark) held on June 21, 2022, Gabriel Sterling stated with Raffensperger seated to his right, “And by going through the hand tally that the Secretary pointed out, we showed that if there had been multiple ballots scanned without a corresponding physical ballot, your counts would have been a lot higher than the ballots themselves.” When referring to the RLA Hand Audit, Sterling describes it as “dead on accurate.” Rossi alleges Sterling perjured himself with those statements. See page 29 of the transcript for Sterling's remarks.
• In contrast to Sterling’s two statements, Raffensperger admitted during a radio interview that there were thousands of vote counting errors in the Fulton RLA report posted on the SOS website. In this interview, Raffensperger states, “When we did the 100% hand recount we found three counties that messed up, you know, fairly significantly…number two was Fulton County. All of a sudden,” he continued, “ they were off by several thousand ballots. Well, it is because they scanned some of those ballots twice.” The posted Fulton County RLA Hand Audit cannot both be “dead on accurate,” and off by several thousand ballots.”

The Coverup

• Email from Sterling on March 17, 2021. After admitting there were errors on the Fulton RLA Report, according to Rossi, “he attempts to exonerate the SOS from any responsibility for the errored report on the SOS website stating, “Fulton is the entity that ultimately needs to provide responses.”
• On December 4, 2021, Rossi says that McGowan made an “unsolicited phone call to Attorney Jack James,” one of the complainants for SEB2021-181. James documented the call writing in his notes, “The purpose of her call was apparently to convince me that the SOS has no responsibility for the errors exposed in Fulton County. I said Mr. Rossi and I believe the SOS has the ultimate responsibility, thus we disagree on the issue of responsibility.”

It is important to note that the vote spread between Biden and Trump was only 11,779 votes in Georgia out of approximately five million cast. That is .24 percent and, although the state recounted time and again, it was always with the same fatal flaws and the same failed process. The concealment surrounding the 2020 election must be exposed once and for all. We cannot undo the past but we can certainly correct the system before it happens again.

I’ll take the liberty of saying these Georgia investigators have been remarkably persistent despite myriad obstacles—often at real personal and financial cost. Their pursuit of the truth has been not only unpopular, but repeatedly mocked by officials up the chain. And they’ve shown an uncommon dedication to the mission, with little of the distracting infighting that so often derails efforts like this when talented people come together to solve a problem. I am convinced that it is for these reasons their efforts culminated in the seizure of the election materials. While it will likely never happen, they should be richly commended for their efforts on behalf of all Georgia voters.

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