Here is what the Republican led Georgia State Election Board
actually did after finding sufficient evidence of the violation:
- It referred the matter to the Attorney General.
- It requested civil penalties/fines, including discussion of fines per unsigned tape.
- It sought recovery of missing records and further investigation.
Notably absent from the Board's action was any request to decertify votes, invalidate ballots, or alter the election results.
Legally, courts distinguish between:
- Mandatory procedures (officials are supposed to do them), and
- Whether failure to follow them disenfranchises otherwise lawful voters.
In election law,
judges will not throw out votes cast by eligible voters because election officials failed to complete paperwork correctly unless there is evidence that the violation affected the vote totals, concealed fraud, or made it impossible to determine the true result.
A useful comparison is this: if poll workers forget to sign a chain-of-custody form for a ballot box, that may justify sanctions against the workers or county, but it does not automatically mean every ballot in the box becomes illegal.
You cannot and will never show the language supporting the lie you made.