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They Just Keep 'Finding' Ballots to Count in Georgia, and It Doesn't Make Any Sense
Red State ^ | 11/05/2020

Posted on 11/05/2020 10:58:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind

As I’ve noted before, I’m generally one of those people who view election night results I’m unhappy with from an “okay, so and so won, I’m gonna grumble about it for a bit and then get to work countering their agenda” perspective. My first thought is usually not to allege the election was not “STOLEN!” It’s “what can our party do better so that we can get the results we want next time around?”

But when things look fishy and smell stinky, they definitely deserve a calling out, and some of the things going on in the state of Georgia right now deserve a lot more sunlight than they’re getting from the national media.

My RedState colleague Brandon Morse reported earlier about how Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced today that some counties in the state somehow forgot to click the “upload” button when submitting updated vote totals for their respective areas. Not surprisingly, the counties were blue counties.

What should also be sounding off alarm bells for all Georgia voters as well as the Republican party and the Trump campaign is that the number of votes “left to count” in Georgia conveniently keeps rising. Normally when votes are counted, the numbers left to count should be decreasing. Instead, they are going up in Georgia.

Check out what WSB-TV tweeted this morning:

NEW: Georgia Secretary of State just said LIVE on Channel 2 that there are now under 25,000 ballots left to be counted and should be done by noon today.

As of 6:20 a.m.,18,540 votes separate Trump and Biden according to SOS website: https://t.co/ol9E9A8XEh pic.twitter.com/jWwEB39wjG

— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) November 5, 2020

But then:

UPDATE: The Secretary of State's Office says there are actually 50,000-60,000 uncounted ballots remaining as of 8:30 a.m., more than initially thought early this morning: https://t.co/27Al5xzlvc

— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) November 5, 2020

And later:

Latest update from @GaSecofState is 61,000 outstanding ballots. Here’s a breakdown by county pic.twitter.com/0kEDIr6c9V

— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) November 5, 2020

I’m sorry, but this just doesn’t make sense. Why are the numbers rising when they should be decreasing? I’m with this guy:

Am I the only one who finds it somewhat odd that the number of votes remaining to count has been steadily rising all morning? Does the Sec of State need a math lesson, are the county offices incompetent or is something strange going on? Help me here. Please.

— Lance Anderson (@Darkhawque) November 5, 2020

On top of that there are the provisional ballots and military ballots that need to be counted, the numbers of which we don’t have:

Important to note that Georgia’s outstanding vote totals do not include provisional ballots or military ballots – it’s unclear how many of those there are. Those need to be in/resolved by Friday and ballots needing “cured” also have Friday deadline.

— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) November 5, 2020

Georgia’s got a big transparency issue going on right now on a number of fronts, and Raffensperger is coming off as a front guy for what at the very least looks like gross incompetence on the part of the election officials at the county level in Georgia.

As is the case with what the state board of elections is doing here in NC with outstanding absentee ballots that are not yet accounted for, the “forgetting” to upload vote totals and the “finding” of extra votes to count that just so happen to be in blue areas of Georgia inspires zero confidence in the process and only causes more people to question whether or not the election result numbers are genuine or have been massaged in some way to help put Joe Biden over the top.

The margin between Trump and Biden in the state right now is razor-thin, and the next state “called” for Biden could put him near or over 270. Trump should be having lawyers blanketing the state like a blizzard in the wintertime. This stinks to high heaven.


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KEYWORDS: ballots; georgia; votes
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To: SeekAndFind

We are Mexico...


21 posted on 11/05/2020 11:11:46 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Actually, Mexico requires photo id for voting.


22 posted on 11/05/2020 11:12:19 AM PST by Professional
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To: gw-ington

Ballots just keep turning up. Amazing isn’t it? This should not be going on anywhere! Election day, is election day!!! .. If this is going to go to court, then let Evey ballot be scrutinized!!!!


23 posted on 11/05/2020 11:13:40 AM PST by MGunny
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To: Professional

They do, but between bribery and “found” votes at the eleventh hour, we’re pretty much there.


24 posted on 11/05/2020 11:13:40 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything)
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To: SeekAndFind
Worked the polls for four years, and know that we could not end the night without all the ballots being counted and accounted for.

If we started the day with 4,000 ballots, at the end of the night our total votes tallied, plus spoiled ballots, plus unused ballots had to equal 4,000.

No "missing ballots" or "extra ballots". It's simple math, like balancing a bloody checkbook, not rocket science.

25 posted on 11/05/2020 11:14:15 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
This strikes me as a de facto violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1982 Amendment to Section 2 - the major difference being disenfranchisement on the basis of party vs race. Work with me.

...several factors for courts to consider when determining if, within the totality of the circumstances in a jurisdiction, the operation of the electoral device being challenged results in a violation of Section 2. These factors include:

1. the history of official voting-related discrimination in the state or political subdivision;
2. the extent to which voting in the elections of the state or political subdivision is racially party polarized;
3. the extent to which the state of political subdivision has used voting practices or procedures that tend to enhance the opportunity for discrimination against the minority group, such as unusually large election districts, majority-vote requirements, and prohibitions against bullet voting;
4. the exclusion of members of the minority group from candidate slating processes;
5. the extent to which minority group members bear the effects of discrimination in areas such as education, employment, and health, which hinder their ability to participate effectively in the political process;
6. the use of overt or subtle racial appeals in political campaigns; and
7. the extent to which members of the minority group have been elected to public office in the jurisdiction.
S.Rep. No. 97-417, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. (1982), pages 28-29.

26 posted on 11/05/2020 11:17:01 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

DeSantis is the real deal and Kemp is a stooge.


27 posted on 11/05/2020 11:17:50 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“We are Mexico...”

Literally. The PRI uses the technique. Suspend the election when losing. Then resume counting after getting the needed ballots.


28 posted on 11/05/2020 11:19:20 AM PST by Luke21
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To: Professional

Georgia requires voter ID, that is not the problem here.


29 posted on 11/05/2020 11:20:20 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: wiseprince

I’m with you. They are just shoving the cheating in our face. If we cannot have any integrity in our voting process, than we are nothing more than a banana republic. Live free or die.


30 posted on 11/05/2020 11:21:12 AM PST by alabama_heart (t)
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To: wiseprince
"It’s so obvious. Not one vote should be counted until you know the total number of votes that were submitted.'

That right there SHOULD be the law everywhere in our country..

31 posted on 11/05/2020 11:24:25 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: alabama_heart
If we cannot have any integrity in our voting process, than we are nothing more than a banana republic.

That horse has left the barn.
32 posted on 11/05/2020 11:25:51 AM PST by cgbg (We shall fight on beaches, on grounds, the fields, the streets, the hills. Never surrender. WC)
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To: Jonny7797

You can be damned sure these “government workers” have been coached (especially by their unions) on what to do to steal the election for BuyDem the scumbag.


33 posted on 11/05/2020 11:28:36 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare to survive.)
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To: gw-ington; All

He need to stop this crime !
WTF he waiting for !


34 posted on 11/05/2020 11:29:34 AM PST by Orlando
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To: rolling_stone; Blueflag

bttt


35 posted on 11/05/2020 11:32:14 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind

In Florida the local election supervisor is required to certify how many mail in ballots there are before the counting begins. That is one of the reasons the Broward election supervisor caught such flack in 2016. She refused to certify how many there were. Then out of nowhere, the ballots started to appear.


36 posted on 11/05/2020 11:33:25 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

would be cool if republicans all of a sudden found a couple million ballots in california, and they are 90% Trump ballots-


37 posted on 11/05/2020 11:35:31 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

Abracadabra hocus POTUS?


38 posted on 11/05/2020 11:41:06 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Venezuela...


39 posted on 11/05/2020 11:42:41 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hates:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: SeekAndFind
Remember, remember
The theft of November,
Democrat cheating and fraud;
It bears repeating
That Democrat cheating
Should never seem so odd.
40 posted on 11/05/2020 11:44:22 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (The Wag Tailoring the Doggerel)
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