Chain of events in Fulton county

Here is how it went down:

• Several poll watchers working Fulton county sign affidavits under oath that the poll workers held a meeting, told everyone that counting was done, but then they found out later that counters continued to count without them observing.
• The Fulton county election workers and their supervisors flat out deny that ballots were counted outside of the presence of appropriate observers. Basically calling the poll watchers liars. 
• The media demands that such a denial constitutes "debunking of the claims" and declares under the guise of factchecking that the sworn affidavits are bunk. No late night sneaky ballot counting was done. These are "Pants on fire", "four Pinocchio" style lies. 

Then the surveillance video surfaces showing what appears to be a meeting, at the very time that those sworn affidavits suggest. Shortly after the meeting everyone leaves, but four poll workers go back into the room, pull ballot boxes from under a table (that was draped with a black cloth covering that appeared to hide them) and they started counting more ballots without the poll watchers.

• This prompts those poll watchers who signed the affidavits to declare that this video was indeed proof of what they suggest and that the previous denials were dishonest.
• The Fulton county election workers and their supervisors demand at this point that the gathering shown on the tape was simply them telling "ballot cutters" and other extra personnel that they were done and could go home. Not poll watchers. 
• Since they can no longer deny that they continued to count without poll watchers (as was their original implicational denial), they now provide the "new" explanation that the fact that the poll watchers went home was a misunderstanding on the poll watchers part and not the fault of the election workers. They claim that it was perfectly acceptable for them to count votes without poll watchers, because one of the four of these ballot counters was technically an "observer" and not a counter. 
• The media now accepts without question the "new" explanation, declares the claims that the poll watchers were sent home to be "debunked" (again) and demands once again that "fact checking" has proven the poll watchers claims to be false, even as they now appear true.

Then certain savvy member of social media and the conservative media point out that on election night, just at the same time that the election workers held that meeting, that the Secretary of States Elections department had, in fact, issued statements to the press telling everyone that Fulton County (and others) were suspending their counting for the evening and would restart in the morning. These provides further evidence of what the poll watchers were claiming and once again seem to put the work of the election officials at question. 

• Which of course, should debunk the media debunks and prove that the media fact checking here needs some serious fact checking. There doesn't seem to be even a reasonable explanation as to why the ballot counters continued to count when the SOS office had told them to suspend counting or why they would have done so without poll watchers. 
• But this prompts pretty much nothing but crickets from either the election workers who steadfastly refuse to give ground or the media who seem incapable of questioning anyone other than those who provided sworn affidavits. They all appear to stand by the "new" explanation of events even as it is a mile or two short of passing the basic sniff test.

Now I certainly am not saying that "everything" suggested by the lawsuits or by the conspiracy theorists are true. The ballot boxes under the table were probably not suitcases, and the fact that they appear to be "hidden" under the table might have an honest explanation. 

What I will tell you is that there is absolutely every reason to believe that the Poll watchers were telling the absolute 100% truth when they say that they were sent home. There is also every reason to believe that the election poll workers are lying through their teeth when they suggest it was a misunderstanding. 

I would bet everything I own on those assumptions. 

I will also tell you that the small amount of ballots that some are saying were counted does not jive with what is shown on the tape. These workers ran ballots through for two and a half hours on several machines that count 3000 ballots an hour. There is no way that the total count from that was less than 5000 as some are suggesting, and most certainly I don't attribute a random drop of evenly split ballots between Biden and Trump as accounting for mail in ballots from Fulton. If Trump was winning 50% of the mail in ballots in Fulton, there is no way he lost Georgia. 

This is a horrible example of the media openly choosing to believe an explanation for events (that make no logical sense)- while continuing to report that the allegations (that appear to verified by video and backed up by press statements from the Secretary of State elections division) to be false. The "only" explanation for this action is the fact that the version of events that are reporting as true is simply the version of events that they personally "want" to believe to be true. That is no way for an honest journalist to behave.