Moncla's Sept. 21, 2023 email drew fire when he wrote:
"Mr. Mashburn, listen well. There will be no more excuses. I am putting you on notice that I will be holding you accountable. There are 19 people whose lives hang in the balance because they knew Georgia's 2020 General Election and Senate run-off results were wrong. Those people were right. You can either properly investigate our complaints and verify the facts, or I will show you publicly in the media."
The most recent chapter in Rossi and Moncla's investigation played out on Dec. 19 at the State Election Board meeting in Georgia. Support for an investigation of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger fell short by one vote to open an investigation into the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for his certification of the 2020 Presidential election.
As a result of the vote, the Board ended in a deadlock, a 2-2 vote, just short of the majority required. The tie was unprecedented because, historically, the Chairman abstains from voting unless there is a tie. The Board then voted unanimously to ask the General Assembly whether the SEB has the jurisdiction to investigate Raffensperger. Board members Dr. Janice Johnston and Ed Lindsey supported the motion to investigate Raffensperger. Opposing the motion were Board Chairman Matt Mashburn and Democrat Sara Tindal Ghazal.
Citizen investigators Kevin Moncla and Joe Rossi have done yeoman's work bringing the necessary receipts to prove the 2020 election was fraught with issues. Lindsey opened the December meeting with a spontaneous request to hear from Rossi about his and Moncla's findings.
Rossi spoke about why he believes Raffensperger should be investigated. Rossi was heartily applauded by the public who were packed into the room when he said he believes that "we can't just point the fingers at Fulton County–Raffensperger must be held accountable. There has to be some accountability for the chief election official of the state, who is Mr. Raffensberger. To be honest, we felt like there was a concerted cover-up effort to protect the Secretary of State's office from any accountability and to send this through to Fulton County. To give him a little slap on the wrist and not do anything to damage the Raffensperger narrative, which was [that] both recounts were perfect."
Furthermore, Rossi made it clear that the errors he found in the Fulton County audit were legitimate and should be, at the very least, corrected with a "footnote" at the bottom of their report to denote the SOS acknowledges there were errors.
According to Rossi, Raffensperger committed election code violations connected with the "Risk-Limiting hand audit posted on [the Secretary of State's] website." Even the SEB found flaws in the Fulton County audit. A consent agreement was secretly negotiated to resolve the matter and effectively confirmed the 36 errors, site unseen, and left it at that. Rossi explained that he was "not asking the Board to hear the merits of the case" but to investigate either the State Election Board or the Secretary of State.
While there was a great deal of controversy over whether the Board has the authority to investigate a secretary of state, Dr. Johnston spoke compellingly, citing multiple reasons an investigation of the Secretary of State is well within the boundaries of the Board's authority to do so. Johnston stated:
"It is my view that the State Election Board has the power to direct an investigation of the Secretary of State, election officials in the Secretary of State's Office, or both, reading of the statutory provisions dealing with the Board.
The Board was created by the General Assembly and given the statutory duty to ensure that election officials conduct elections in a legal, honest, and uniform manner. It is the Board's duty to investigate and report election violations, fraud, or irregularities.
The Board was created by the General Assembly and given the statutory duty to ensure that election officials conduct elections in a legal, honest, and uniform manner. It is the Board's duty to investigate and report election violations, fraud, or irregularities.
The Board has the power to examine under oath any person concerning any matter connected with or bearing on the proper discharge of its duties. The face of these provisions provides no limit. Therefore, before the Secretary of State or his office can claim their unity from investigation, they must identify some provision of the law granting it to them. This they have failed to do."
Moncla, Rossi, and others have repeatedly presented ample evidence in the form of ongoing correspondence and complaints to show there were glaring issues with the administration of the 2020 election. Important questions remain about the tabulator machine count errors, chain of custody, and the state's voter rolls, among other things.
Moncla sent a letter with an attached Amicus Letter of support of Joe Rossi on Dec. 18, 2023. The letter summarizes the current state of affairs regarding the various complaints submitted by Moncla, Rossi, and Cross.
UncoverDC spoke with Moncla on Wednesday about the attached Amicus Letter, dated Dec. 15. In the Amicus, Moncla references the empty consent agreement, calling it a "Board Stipulated consent agreement (hereinafter "BS Agreement")." In the letter, Moncla describes all the many ways the consent agreement has failed the citizens of Georgia:
"I called it the BS agreement flippantly because [it] does absolutely nothing to hold anyone accountable or responsible for the defects in the hand count. It does nothing to correct the official records. And most importantly, it does absolutely nothing to prevent the same from happening again. In fact, it almost ensures it. It is our job as citizens to hold the government accountable for fraud, waste, and abuse."
Undaunted by threats from the FBI, Moncla wrote another email to the members of the Board and the General Counsel for the Secretary of State, Charlene McGowan, the day after the Dec. 19 meeting. Moncla calls the meeting a "Dog and Pony show." According to Moncla, Dominic Olomo, the Fulton County Elections Department IT director, is also a foreign national and former Dominion and Happy Faces employee. Moncla has the Fulton County records to prove it.
As for the alleged FBI probe, Moncla summarizes their actions in the following way:
"I am being investigated for petitioning my government for seeking redress of our grievances, a right that is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, or so I thought."
