You may have heard of a video purporting to show some illegal hijinks during the counting of votes in Georgia. Here’s the best way to discredit what turns out to be manipulated nonsense:
What you see in that video is Fulton County election workers arranging, sorting, and verifying ballots.
It is what they did before and after people left.
They were not unsupervised. The person in the blue shirt is a monitor from the Republican Secretary of State’s office.
What happened is at 10pm, the Fulton County Board of Elections announced they were sending most everyone home. The Republicans decided that meant everyone was leaving, but that is not what was said. The Fulton County Board of Elections and the Secretary of State both attest that it was made clear they were sending most people home, not everyone home.
The Secretary of State’s monitor stayed to observe.
Nothing nefarious was seen.
The monitor left to grab a drink and the GOP has selectively cut the video to make it look like the monitor left completely. He did not. The Secretary of State, the monitor, and the people there all confirm he was gone for only a few minutes. The Republican board member for the Fulton County Board of Elections also confirms this.
And who’s this? I know I critique and even make fun of him, but Erick Erickson was, in another lifetime, an election lawyer. So an expert and he’s on the same side as those manufacturing the uproar.
This is a believable discrediting.
