Ga. state Senate committee requests forensic audit of absentee ballots in Fulton Co.

A Georgia state Senate subcommittee is requesting an audit of absentee ballots in Fulton County. 

In a measure passed unanimously Wednesday by the Election Law Study Subcommittee, lawmakers ask Georgia's largest county to make their absentee ballots "available for inspection" through a digital ID system.

Election results in Georgia are being contested by President Trump and his legal team. The current vote count, which reflects several recounts, has Joe Biden ahead by about 12,000 votes. 

The state recounts and ballot-signature-match audit that occurred in one county revealed some election irregularities, though not enough to reverse the final count of the state.

Many of the accusations of fraud in Georgia are centered on Democrat-leaning Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.

Security video footage from election night appears to show election officials counting tens of thousands of ballots without a party or state monitor present. Other footage seems to show election workers repeatedly scanning the same batch of ballots.

The digital ID system that the state Senate is asking to use was developed by Jovan Pulitzer, who explained that his system would be able to rapidly detect fraudulent ballots.

"We would be able to tell if they were folded, if they were counterfeit, whether they were filled out by a human hand, whether they were printed by a machine, whether they were batch-fed continually over and over, we can detect every bit of that," Pulitzer told the committee. 

Pulitzer also suggested that his company could assess the legitimacy of the 500,000 ballots cast in Fulton County in about two days.