Breakdown

Six years after Georgia became the epicenter of the “Stop the Steal” movement, voters return to the polls for another historic election.

As polls open across the state, a voting equipment problem may leave 1,069 Fulton County ballots in limbo. AJC journalists follow those ballots from beginning to end. They even gain exclusive access to key insiders to see how Georgia’s election system responds under intense scrutiny. Inside the Fulton County Election Hub, election officials, poll watchers, reporters and voters confront the lingering legacy of 2020.

The last chapter of The Final Tally explores whether transparency, accountability and an ordinary election can help restore confidence in one of America’s most scrutinized election systems.
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An FBI raid. Boxes of ballots. And an affidavit that pulled Georgia back into the battles of 2020.

In Episode 2, AJC reporters follow the evidence behind the Fulton County investigation and unpack how skeptics, activists, lawmakers, and election officials have spent years fighting over what really happened.

The result is a story about how Georgia became ground zero in America's struggle over election trust, and why that fight is still shaping the future of voting.
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It had been almost three decades since Georgia backed a Democratic presidential candidate. Then, in 2020, it flipped.

As Joe Biden's narrow victory emerged, false claims of voter fraud spread across the state, turning Fulton County into the center of a national firestorm.

AJC reporters Greg Bluestein, Patricia Murphy, David Wickert and Tia Mitchell take listeners inside the recounts, conspiracy theories, threats against election workers, and the pressure campaign that culminated in Donald Trump's infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. It's the story of how Georgia became the epicenter of "Stop the Steal" and why the fight didn't end when the votes were counted.
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The team uncovers glaring red flags unknown to the GBI. The deeper they go, the harder it becomes to understand how they were ever missed.  

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