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.)
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.