Thank you for your reply. What I need to ask you is, why are there only 4 people on the video counting ballots, and no one visibly watching the vote counters.
I have watched the video a dozen times. 4 counters feeding machines, no watchers. That is what my eyes saw. Please explain.
> What I need to ask you is, why are there only 4 people on the video counting ballots, and no one visibly watching the vote counters.
There were five people there: Ruby Freeman, Wandrea Moss (Ruby's daughter), Ralph Jones -- the Fulton Co. registration chief, and two other workers whose names I don't know. There is also the state election monitor who returns to the room around at 11:50pm (note that the Republican observers left the room at 10:45pm.) As for why this happened, Richard Barron, Fulton Co. elections director at the time said that he called Ralph Jones (the man in the jacket and red shirt) and told him that they needed to keep counting (by this time Ruby Freeman and perhaps some of the others had already been there for 18 hours, so they were probably more than ready to go home.) You can see Ralph Jones receive the call from Richard Barron at 10:58pm, and then make an announcement to the people in the room. Shortly after this they start taking the ballot crates that had previously been sealed and placed under the tables (between 10 to 10:30pm or so while media and poll watchers were present) in order to count them. So it appears that they thought they were going home after a *very* long day, but Richard Barron called and told them to keep counting.
The Republican poll watchers were not forced to leave. The doors to that room were not locked. People in other parts of State Farm arena knew that counting had continued in that room (perhaps because the counting was taking place in front of a huge window and anyone walking/driving by could see ongoing activity in that room.) Was the situation irregular and sloppy? Sure. That's why they had a full hand count which confirmed the original machine count.
If you'd like to watch the security cam video that the State of Georgia made available you can find it
here.