Sham Georgia SOS investigation exonerates individuals and ignores glaring crime committed in State Farm Arena ballot scanning, Scanning ordered without poll watchers
Sham Georgia SOS investigation exonerates individuals and ignores glaring crime committed in State Farm Arena ballot scanning, Scanning ordered without poll watchers
Accusations made against Ruby Freeman et al perhaps were made too hastily.
Should Ruby have been aware that she was taking part in an illegal scanning process that should have been done with poll watchers present?
Certainly the supervisors should have known.
The following investigation results, initiated by the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, exonerates Ruby Freeman et al of specific charges and also comes to conclusions that are false.
REPORT OF INVESTIGATION
CASE NAME: Fulton County-Poll Worker Fraud
“The Secretary of State’s Office initiated this investigation following a complaint referral from Georgia State Senator Kay Kirkpatrick.”
“1. Allegation Related to Committing Fraud by Counting Ballots after Observers Left Tabulation and/or Creating Counterfeit Ballots Teams of investigators from the FBI, GBI, and Georgia SOS conducted independent and simultaneous interviews of Fulton County elections workers who were involved in the processing and scanning of absentee ballots at State Farm Arena on Election Night on November 3, 2020. Investigators from the three law enforcement agencies also reviewed the entire unedited security video footage of the events in question at State Farm Arena. SOS investigators independently interviewed party observers who were present at State Farm Arena that evening. The witness statements and video footage are summarized below.”
“On January 12, 2021, former SOS Investigator Frank “Paul” Braun contacted and interviewed Mitchell Harrison regarding the statements in his affidavit. Harrison advised he was a credentialed field organizer for the Republican Party. Investigator Braun asked Harrison if anyone asked him to leave State Farm Arena. Harrison stated a Fulton County employee, possibly a supervisor, who had long braids advised everyone in the entire room they were going to stop working for the night. They were led to believe the workers were done. After Investigator Braun confirmed Harrison’s initial account that there were Fulton County employees still at the counter when the announcement was made and further explained that poll watchers can stay until the lights are out, Harrison responded it was his first time working as a poll watcher and did not really know what to do. Harrison explained since he wrote the affidavit, people have been texting and calling him and he is “done with it.”
On August 23, 2021, then Fulton County Board of Elections and Registration Elections Director Richard “Rick” Barron advised in an email that, sometime around 10:30 p.m. on election night, he called Ralph Jones to inquire if it were true that they were shutting down for the night. He then advised Jones to keep counting until they had no more ballots to count or until the state told everyone to go home for the night.”
Scanning without poll watchers present is in direct contradiction to GA law.
Attorney Jackie Pick describes what happened.
“President Donald Trump’s legal team on Thursday presented surveillance footage to a Georgia State Legislature hearing that appears to show election ballot-counting workers kicking out poll observers late at night on Election Day before pulling out suitcases allegedly filled with ballots.
A woman who identified herself as Jackie Pick, a lawyer who is assisting with their legal case, said the team received video footage from State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Fulton County, Georgia. The team said that GOP poll watchers were not allowed to watch the counting process in the poll center.”
“In the hearing, it was noted that officials cleared out State Farm Arena on Election Night due to an alleged pipe break. Pick and other members of Trump’s team said it’s not clear whether this was the reason why poll workers and members of the press were kicked out.
Fulton County officials haven’t responded to a request for comment about the team’s claims or the video.
In early November, a Fulton County spokeswoman told Epoch Times that they were “not aware of direction given to any observers to leave.”
However, Georgia Republican Party Chair David Shafer said Fulton County officials “falsely announced that the counting of ballots would stop at 10:30 p.m.””