Georgia’s Republican attorney general announced Monday his office would not conduct an investigation into Fulton County for its conduct during the 2020 election. The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) ruled in May that Fulton County repeatedly violated election law during the 2020 election.

Attorney General Christopher Carr said in a post on X on Aug. 1 that the state would “investigate specific claims of voter fraud.”

“Based on the facts and evidence, we stand ready to prosecute any voter fraud found in the State of Georgia,” Carr’s post continued.

The State of Georgia will investigate specific claims of voter fraud.

Based on the facts & the evidence, we stand ready to prosecute any voter fraud found in the State of Georgia.

— GA AG Chris Carr (@Georgia_AG) August 1, 2024

Six days later the SEB voted 3-2 to ask Carr to investigate Fulton County, with members of the board specifically referring to a complaint labeled SEB 2023-025, which was filed by Kevin Moncla and Joseph Rossi. The complaint included allegations of roughly 3,000 “duplicate ballots” and nearly 18,000 votes “for which no physical ballot was in evidence.” In May, the SEB passed a motion finding that the county double-scanned 3,075 ballots, though it did not rule on the 17,852 votes allegedly missing ballot images or other allegations made in the complaint.

The resolution says if Carr does not investigate then the board can hire an independent investigator, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

But in a letter to SEB Chairman John

Have you noticed that “gaffe-“prone vice presidential candidate Tim Walz misspeaks quite a bit, tends to use “sloppy” rhetoric, and is regularly compelled to “clarify” his statements? Really, Walz lies a lot. Yet, a political press that not very long ago featured “lie counters” on chyrons for Donald Trump is awash in euphemisms to cover for Walz’s deceptions.  

It’s one thing to exaggerate your political accomplishments or lie about your political opponents. Walz isn’t the first politician to spin some fiction about a drunk driving arrest. All in the game.

Lying about serving in war, on the other hand, is a shameful appropriation of bravery and honor. Years ago, it was unlikely a candidate could recover from the indignity of misleading the public about his military service. Today, apparently, it’s no big deal. Walz, picked by Kamala Harris two weeks ago as a running mate, won’t even answer any genuine questions about his history of misleading voters.

And make no mistake, Walz isn’t being “accused” of lying by the GOP, as so many in the press contend. He’s been caught on tape. Indeed, Walz, who also often misrepresented his rank, spent years — at best — allowing voters to believe he’d courageously gone off to Iraq or Afghanistan when in fact he was in Italy, and then avoided deployment to enter politics.

Lying about fighting in a war is unethical and dishonorable. It’s nothing new. Lying about how your children were conceived to score some cheap political points is

When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was introduced as Kamala Harris’ running mate, the campaign presented him as a bonified patriot, a career National Guardsman who retired as a command sergeant major after 24 years of faithful service to his country, including a deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Walz enlisted two days after his 17th birthday in April 1981. As Walz tells it, when the planes hit the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, the attack compelled him to reenlist in lieu of his 20-year retirement, to carry out his patriotic duty to serve his country in a time of war. He then retired in 2005, years after his service obligation for retirement was satisfied.

But in fact, just like claims that he served in war, or retired as a command sergeant major, the story as Walz tells it is not true.

Serving in Combat and Rank

Walz is a serial fabulist. On Aug. 6, the same day Harris announced Walz as her choice for running mate, the Harris campaign posted a video on X in which Walz stated, “We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war.” Turns out Walz “misspoke.” To put it in more natural terms, he lied. On day one, the first video of Kamala Harris’ vice-presidential candidate released by the campaign contained within it a blatant lie about his military service that stepped right up to the line of what most military veterans would consider