It was fully investigated, including by the Trump team. I don't like the answer, but it was fully investigated.
The counting area was under full video surveillance the entire day and night. There is video from earlier in the night that shows the workers packing up ballots into the boxes and putting them under the tables, in preparation for leaving for the night. They told reporters that they were leaving for the night, and both the press and the Republican poll watchers went home.
Then the Supervisor got a phone call from the Secretary of State that they had to continue counting. So that's when they got the ballots back out from under the tables, and that is the video everybody saw.
Okay, but again, federal and state election law states ballots should only be counted in the presence of observers/media.
I watched the longest video posted and read a summary from those who saw the video from the entire day and it was not clear to me when the ballots were placed under the table. Furthermore, explain the body language.
She tells everyone to leave. They are sitting in the room like a DOT road crew playing on their phones doing nothing. She physically walks over to the tape line where observers had been and looks down the hallway (?) where nobody was located. She then walks back towards the others in the room and they spring to life like a fast food staff at lunch hour.
Does that look right? FWIW - the Sec of State provided several different explanations of what happened and how/why would the Sec of State tell them to violate election law?
If you watch the video of the counting machines the workers put one stack through the machine one time. Why does she put the same stack through the machine at least 3 times? That was not similar to what the video showed others doing on that day.
Then the Supervisor got a phone call from the Secretary of State that they had to continue counting. So that’s when they got the ballots back out from under the tables, and that is the video everybody saw.
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That’s somewhat the explanation I read, But as I understand it, it is still illegal to enter the ballots into the machines without poll watchers there.
Lacking any deep investigation into this, the context and the content of the video it is rational to have concluded fraud. It would be similarly rational to have expected a criminal investigation, prosecutions and mandating of a highly supervised re-vote.
This is what I saw from the hearings:
1. Video of ballots being sneaked into the building and hidden underneath a table.
2. A flood was reported, election workers evacuated and counting stopped.
3. Very shortly thereafter, a handful of election workers returned. These select workers did not include observers or other staff. Neither party was notified of this ‘special team’ would continue counting.
4. Votes hidden underneath a table were pulled out, and counted.
5. Later, after this task was completed, the process returned to business as usual when staff returned. Neither party was notified that counting had privately continued.
NOTHING in this scenario passes the sniff test. The flood itself has been questioned as well, and accounts from the building service saw a minor leak.
My understanding of this s scenario could be flawed. However, there is so much about this incident that REASONABLY provides doubt about a lawful and fair counting process. It doesn’t make you a conspiracy theorist to question a bullshit evacuation, retrieval of hidden votes underneath a table, and the ‘special’ crew that was called to secretly count them.
Then there’s the voting machines...
What explains the workers running a stack of ballots through three times. Legal ballots or not running ballots through three times is illegal. And if 🐀 burger told them to keep counting without observers that is also illegal!
I have seen this from you before