For five long years, Americans who dared to question the integrity of the 2020 election were mocked, dismissed, and labeled conspiracy theorists. Millions of patriotic citizens raised legitimate concerns about voting irregularities. Officials ignored them. The media ridiculed them. The message from the political establishment was unmistakable: asking questions about election integrity made you a threat to democracy itself.

But what happens when the very institutions tasked with upholding the law finally decide to investigate? What happens when federal agents actually examine the evidence that everyday Americans had been pointing to for half a decade? Turns out, the answer is vindication.

From Just the News:

The FBI has “substantiated” some major irregularities in how votes were counted in Georgia’s largest urban area in the aftermath of the 2020 election and is probing whether those failures were intentional efforts to violate federal election law, according to a bombshell affidavit unsealed by a federal court on Tuesday.

“Some of those allegations have been disproven while some of those allegations have been substantiated, including through admissions by Fulton County,” Evans wrote. “This warrant application is part of an FBI criminal investigation into whether any of the improprieties were intentional acts that violated federal criminal laws.”

The FBI—not a conservative news outlet, not a Republican politician, not a grassroots citizen group—has now confirmed what so many Americans believed since November 2020. Honestly? The only appropriate reaction is absolute disbelief that federal authorities needed five years to corroborate what was staring everyone in the face. Five years. Half a decade of being told we were imagining things. And now this.

Five Categories of Confirmed Irregularities

The unsealed affidavit, filed by FBI Special Agent Hugh Raymond Evans, pulls no punches. Investigators identified five major areas of substantiated irregularities in Fulton County alone. These aren’t allegations anymore. They’re not theories. They’re confirmed facts—some admitted to by Fulton County itself.

First up: the county cannot produce scanned images of all 528,777 ballots from the original count. We’re not talking about a minor filing error here. That’s a catastrophic loss of election evidence. Just gone.

Second, ballots were scanned multiple times during the recount. The affidavit notes that images show “ballots with unique markings duplicated.” Hard to explain that one away as an innocent mistake.

Third, hand-count auditors reported vote tallies that flatly contradicted the actual ballots sitting in front of them. The numbers didn’t match. Period.

Now here’s where it gets truly outrageous. Auditors reported counting absentee ballots that had never been folded. Stop and think about that. Mail-in ballots—supposedly sent to voters’ homes and returned in sealed envelopes—showed zero evidence of ever being creased. Pristine. Untouched. Never mailed.

And the cherry on top? Fulton County initially reported 17,434 fewer ballots in their recount. Then, like magic, they “discovered” those missing ballots the very next day. Nothing suspicious there, right?

The Officials Who Looked the Other Way

What makes this revelation absolutely maddening is the willful blindness of people who should have caught these problems years ago. The FBI affidavit drops a bombshell about Georgia’s own Director of Elections in 2020. Identified as Witness 4, this official admitted under questioning that he had no idea physical ballot counts didn’t match ballot images. When pressed on whether that mattered, he conceded such a discrepancy “would be problematic.”

Problematic. That’s one word for it. Criminal negligence might be another.

Yet Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spent years insisting that none of these issues affected Biden’s razor-thin victory over Trump in Georgia. Here’s my question: how could he possibly know that when his own elections director was oblivious to the problems? He couldn’t. He was guessing. Or worse—he simply didn’t want to know.

This is the inevitable result when officials choose narrative protection over actual accountability. For five years, anyone raising these exact concerns got treated like a dangerous lunatic. Turns out the lunatics were right.

Key Takeaways

• The FBI has substantiated five categories of voting irregularities in Georgia’s Fulton County from 2020.
• Federal investigators are probing whether these failures were intentional violations of election law.
• Georgia’s own Director of Elections admitted he was unaware of key ballot discrepancies.
• It took five years for federal authorities to corroborate what concerned citizens long suspected.

Sources: Just The News