Georgia Secretary of State's office investigating early departure of Atlanta ballot monitors

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Georgia Secretary of State's office investigating early departure of Atlanta ballot monitors

"We want to make certain they were not misled," said a spokesman for the department's voter education division.


By Daniel Payne

Updated: December 4, 2020 - 1:53pm

The Georgia Secretary of State's office is investigating whether or not a group of ballot monitors in Atlanta were misled into leaving their posts early during ballot-counting on Election Night.

During a Georgia state senate hearing on Thursday, President Trump's legal team revealed security footage from Atlanta's State Farm Arena depicting ballot-counting that occurred there late into Election Night and early into the next morning. The footage, a Trump team lawyer alleged, depicted poll monitors being dismissed from their posts late at night, after which ballot-counting appears to resume, with workers appearing to pull ballots from "suitcases" found under a table.

Walter Jones, a spokesman for the Georgia Secretary of State's voter education division, confirmed to Just the News that the Secretary of State's office "was aware that Fulton County scanning had continued during the period captured in the video presented at the Senate hearing."

"We have launched an investigation into why the monitors from the political parties left before scanning ended," Jones said. "While it was their right to leave early, we want to make certain they were not misled into thinking scanning had stopped for the night when it had not."

'Suitcases' were secure containers, official says

A spokesman in the Secretary of State's office offered further information on the goings-on apparently depicted in the footage.

"One of the things that was micharacterized about that video was that they said, 'Well, these suitcases were pulled out from under the table,'" the spokesman said. "Well, we had record [voter] turnout. And so the ballots had to be put somewhere so people could walk around."

"So there was no mystery," he continued. "These were actually secured containers that were used in a lot of jurisdictions for transporting ballots. Our folks, officials, they knew they were under that piece of furniture. It was not pulled out of the dark when nobody was looking."

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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-secretary-states-office-investigating-early-departure-atlanta

[Hoodat]

Flashback to Election Day:

The county “planned to stop scanning absentee ballots at 10:30 p.m. and pick it up back in the morning,” noted AJC. “No official could explain before press time why Fulton was stopping its count of absentee ballots at that time, only saying that was the procedure.”

“BREAKING- Fulton County Georgia expecting to begin counting absentee ballots at 8:30aET after stopping for the night at 10:30pET,” reported CNN correspondent Nick Valencia. “An estimated 48,000 are still outstanding. Another 79,000 still not counted in DeKalb. They start counting at 11am #ElectionNight2020 #georgia.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/election-results-slowed-in-georgia-following-burst-pipe

This has nothing to do with a burst pipe.  Fulton County had announced all along that they would stop the counting at 10:30 pm and resume the next day.

(The AJC story is still available, but is now behind a paywall)

[Fishrrman]

"Georgia Secretary of State's office investigating early departure of Atlanta ballot monitors
"We want to make certain they were not misled," said a spokesman for the department's voter education division."

Hmmm....
Either they were "misled", or...
... paid off.

[Cyber Liberty]

LOL!  Ol' Riff-Raff will get to the bottom of this, sure.