Bob Rust Interviews Garland Favorito
Originally Published: November–December 2024
USACN Published: 6/20/26
Source: USA CN Podcast
Source URL: Election Integrity Advocate Garland Favorito… (Post-Election Interview)
Organization(s): VoterGA
Interview Participants
Garland Favorito — Co-Founder, VoterGA
Attorney Robert N. Rust III — USA Citizens Network Interviewer
Interview #2
Date Interviewed:
November–December 2024
Description:
Post–November 2024 General Election Interview
Approximate Length:
29–30 minutes
Key Topics:
- Election integrity
- Georgia election reforms
- Voting-system transparency
- Public oversight of elections
- Grassroots organizing
- Pennsylvania election concerns
- Election legislation
- Ballot security
Summary
This interview was recorded several weeks after the November 2024 General Election. Unlike the October 2024 interview, this discussion reflects post-election observations and lessons learned following the completion of the 2024 election cycle.
In this post-election interview, Garland Favorito discusses his two-decade involvement in election-integrity advocacy and the work of VoterGA in promoting election transparency and accountability in Georgia.
Favorito describes his professional background in information technology, cybersecurity, systems analysis, and banking security. He explains how concerns about unverifiable electronic voting systems led him to become involved in election-integrity efforts beginning in the early 2000s.
The discussion reviews legislative reforms achieved in Georgia following the 2020 election, including ballot-security paper requirements, enhanced chain-of-custody procedures, expanded observation rights, and other election-administration reforms.
Favorito emphasizes the importance of grassroots citizen involvement, public education, legislative advocacy, poll-watcher programs, and local election-board engagement. He argues that lasting reform requires persistence, public participation, and transparent election procedures that can be independently verified.
The interview concludes with a discussion of future election-security efforts and lessons that citizens and organizations in Pennsylvania and other states can apply to strengthen public confidence in elections.
Selected Quotes
Quote 1 – Professional Background
“I’m a career IT professional. Worked in computer programming, systems analysis, data administration, and systems development.”
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- Video Time: 2:50–3:00
Quote 2 – VoterGA Mission
“Voter GA stands for Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia.”
- PDF Page: 1
- Video Time: 4:31
Quote 3 – Electronic Voting Concerns
“Your votes just went away. And there was no audit trail for the auditors.”
- PDF Page: 1
- Video Time: 5:24–5:30
Quote 4 – Georgia Legislative Reforms
“Those are just a few of over two dozen provisions that the legislature has passed in the last four years.”
- PDF Page: 2
- Video Time: 8:35–8:45
Quote 5 – Pennsylvania Concerns
“This whole Bucks County incident was pretty disturbing.”
- PDF Page: 2
- Video Time: 12:10–12:20
Quote 6 – Grassroots Organizing
“Once we have been able to educate the folks in other counties around the state, they then take control.”
- PDF Page: 2
- Video Time: 16:15–16:30
Quote 7 – Transparency Principle
“You can’t have secretly counted elections where the Secretary of State tells you what the results are.”
- PDF Page: 3
- Video Time: 21:15–21:20
Quote 8 – Most Important Reform Proposal
“There should be no device between a voter and their ballot.”
- PDF Page: 3
- Video Time: 22:36–22:40
Quote 9 – Publicly Recorded Counts
“We’re striving for publicly recorded hand counts.”
- PDF Page: 3
- Video Time: 22:54–23:00
Quote 10 – Election Transparency
“You can’t cheat if the cameras are on you.”
- PDF Page: 3
- Video Time: 23:08–23:12
Quote 11 – National Security Concern
“We can’t have voting machines that are programmed in Serbia and running on server hardware with chips that were made in China.”
- PDF Page: 7
- Video Time: 24:58–25:10
Quote 12 – Closing Advice
“Election integrity is a multifaceted attack… You need to work with the election boards, try to convince them of the problems that exist.”
- PDF Page: 3
- Video Time: 27:35–28:00
Quote 13 – Long-Term Persistence
“We’ve been at this for over 20 years. In the first 15 years, not many people were listening.”
- PDF Page: 7
- Video Time: 28:35–28:45
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