Georgia Vote-Counting Video Shows Ballot Boxes Followed Proper Chain of Custody

Security footage of Georgia poll workers lugging boxes of ballots out from under a table and scanning them after political party poll watchers had gone home for the night sparked controversy last week when the Trump campaign cited it as evidence of voter fraud, but upon further review the ballots appear to have remained in the proper chain of custody over the course of Election Day.

The Trump campaign showed a portion of the election night surveillance video from Atlanta’s State Farm Arena during a Georgia State Senate hearing on Thursday, claiming the footage shows poll workers shooing election observers out of the arena before proceeding to scan boxes of mysterious and possibly illegal ballots.

I don't believe your statement of Ga. Code § 21-2-566(1)-(2) is entirely accurate. Here's what I found by following the link to Georgia election code from the SoS website:

Any person who:
Willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any poll officer from holding any primary or election under this chapter;
Uses or threatens violence in a manner that would prevent a reasonable poll officer or actually prevents a poll officer from the execution of his or her duties or materially interrupts or improperly and materially interferes with the execution of a poll officer's duties;
[...]
shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years or to pay a fine not to exceed $100,000.00, or both.

It should be fairly clear from reading the law (which perhaps you didn't do -- maybe because you were too busy developing a cloud based application for cleaning up tabular data files using fractal programming...) that "election officer" refers to election workers, not partisan poll watchers.

I think this is the GA election code that you are probably looking for:
§ 21-2-406. Public performance of duties by officials

Superintendents, poll officers, and other officials engaged in the conducting of primaries and elections held under this chapter shall perform their duties in public.

I suppose "in public" is up to some interpretation. Some would argue that this requires that poll watchers from all political parties be present, but that can't be correct since this would give any political party the ability to stop an election indefinitely by just having their poll watchers leave. A more reasonable interpretation is that the polling area should be publicly accessible.

I don't see anything in Michelle Branton's affidavit that contradicts what I have written in my previous posts in this thread (or contradicts the accounts given by Gabe Sterling and other GA election officials.) There are a few errors in the timing of events in her affidavit, but I have no reason to suspect that was intentional on her part.

Here are two key points:

There is no indication from Branton's affidavit or the security cam video that Republican observers were forced to leave or even asked to leave the room. Moreover, neither Ruby Freeman or Wandrea Moss ever addressed any of the observers or members of the press directly.
In her affidavit Branton states that she was aware that there were still three workers in the ballot scanning area when she and the other Republican observer left the room at 10:45pm. Moreover, if you watch the security cam video (say, from 10:43 to 10:46) you will see that these three workers never stopped scanning ballots and were scanning ballots even as the Republican observers walked out of the room. Now that room is fairly large, but there is no way that they couldn't see the workers were pulling ballots from trays, straightening them out and then feeding them into the machines just as they had been doing all day (see image below.) So, even though the Republican observers apparently thought the election workers would soon be finishing up their work, they were certainly aware that the work had not yet finished. Again, what actually happened in that room is very different from the misleading account put forth by Giuliani and his team (cf. the quote of Jackie Pick in post #70.)

The obvious implication of the two points above is that Republican observers left that room at State Farm of their own accord even though they were aware that the scanning of ballots was still ongoing.

Note that the picture above was taken from the table where the Republican observers and media were located. You can clearly see the lady in yellow handling ballots while standing in front of her desk where she is operating one of the five scanning machines (note that this image is from earlier in the evening -- probably before 9:45pm.)

By the way, if your interested you can find the complaint that Ruby Freeman and her daughter (Wandrea Moss) have filed against Gateway Pundit here. Note in the complaint that they do not shy away from any of the various allegations hurled at them, e.g. the mysterious suitcases of ballots, the alleged multiple scanning of ballots, the thumb drive, etc. In fact, these scurrilous allegations are the basis of their complaint. As you are likely aware, they are also suing OANN and Rudy Guiliani on similar grounds. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds, but I anticipate these two ladies are going to be living quite comfortably for the rest of their lives.

"It should be fairly clear from reading the law (which perhaps you didn't do -- maybe because you were too busy developing a cloud based application for cleaning up tabular data files using fractal programming...) that "election officer" refers to election workers, not partisan poll watchers."

So you did walk down to your prison library and get a copy of Essentials of Fractal Programming. LOL.

At least it would be time well-invested, rather than your hilarious bragging about working for the enemy and getting bupkus for your 'invention'!

"I am an inventor on a couple of patents where Google is the assignee and I have made exactly $0 from these patents." - Qilin the Chinacorn.

" It will be interesting to see how this unfolds, but I anticipate these two ladies are going to be living quite comfortably for the rest of their lives."

Oh really. Prove it.

Hey, where did you go, Chinacorn? Come back here and take your Freeper booster shot LOFL...

5. "Within 24 hours, the claims had been publicly and definitively refuted by Georgia elections officials"
Having weave women calling RINO Republican 'Georgia elections officials' for depositions and testimony -- with their re-elections coming right up -- ought to be hilarious.
6. "Ms. Freeman was forced to shutter her online business when social media became impossible to navigate. Fulton County elections’ general email address would forward incoming emails to Ms. Moss and many of her colleagues, filling her workplace with harassing messages."
Total non-starter. Completely without merit under Sullivan and nebulous damages anyway.
7. "As a result of Defendants’ ongoing campaign, both women are afraid to live normal lives. Ms. Freeman is fearful when she hears her name called in public; Ms. Moss now fears risking even a visit to the grocery store and must get her groceries delivered instead."
Quelle dommage! LOL. Maybe she'll settle for a $100 Kroger gift card.

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