Why not actually pass something?
There are actually things about "voting rights" that are universally popular such as making election day a national holiday or allowing for early voting. I am curious as to why our politicians insist on bills that are literally partisan and designed to push the other Party away. Wouldn't it make more sense to actually sit down with a bipartisan group of politicians and find out what is agreed upon and could actually pass?
The answer, of course is that many of these bills are pushed and almost written by big donors and various political advocacy groups that control your politicians. Biden and Democrats are slaves to these progressive groups pushing for more chances to commit election fraud and will simply not settle for fairness.
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"...more chances to commit election faud."
Where and when were ANY committed?
Ch keeps parroting THE BIG LIE.
Speaking of passing something, Nancy Peloshee said that Bankrupt Brandon Better can pass if they simply rename it.
So there you have it.
Yeah, I'm all for passing bipartisan voting rights bills.
Clock Ticking on Trump’s Obstruction of Justice
January 20, 2022 at 3:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 44 Comments
The five-year deadline is closing in to charge Donald Trump with the obstruction of justice crimes detailed by special counsel Robert Mueller, Insider reports.
“In his more than 400-page final report, Mueller’s special counsel team documented 10 episodes of possible obstruction of justice by Trump. Among them were Trump’s efforts in early 2017 to pressure then-FBI Director James Comey to close an investigation into Michael Flynn, who at the time was national security advisor. Trump later fired Comey, setting in motion the events that led to Mueller’s appointment as the special counsel in charge of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.”
YEAR ONE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF4s4nH6fDE
ALKY
"This is pretty clear proof that Biden has over-promised "
Biden yesterday
"I didn't overpromise, and what I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen," Biden
The parallel comparisons to January 6th are very disturbing.
BERLIN — On Jan. 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials of the Nazi bureaucracy met in a villa on Lake Wannsee on the western edge of Berlin. Nibbles were served and washed down with cognac. There was only one point on the agenda: “The organizational, logistical and material steps for a final solution of the Jewish question in Europe.”
Planning the Holocaust took all of 90 minutes.
Eighty years after the infamous Wannsee Conference that meticulously mapped it out, the bureaucratic efficiency of it remains as unnerving as ever.
The minutes taken that day and typed up on 15 pages do not explicitly refer to murder. They use phrases like “evacuation” and “reduction” and “treatment” — and divide up the task among different government departments and their “pertinent specialists.”
“You read that protocol, and it’s chilling,” said Deborah E. Lipstadt, a renowned Holocaust scholar. “It’s all very camouflaged language. But then you look at the list of countries and the number of Jews they planned to kill. Eleven million people they were going to go after. They had very big plans.”
Yeah, I'm all for passing bipartisan voting rights bills.
“The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell, at a press conference.
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Ummm... Mitch, they ARE Americans.
Wouldn't it make more sense to actually sit down with a bipartisan group of politicians and find out what is agreed upon and could actually pass?
Didn't Manchin already attempt that route and got NOTHING FROM HIS R FRIENDS??????? Sorry sport, the the party of No has no desire to ensure voting rights unless it suits their narrow view of the world....!!!!
Senate Republicans filibustered a voting rights bill that was meant to be a compromised version of previous voting rights legislation proposed by Democrats — and which Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, has said would get at least some GOP support.
All 50 Republicans in the Senate voted to filibuster the bill, effectively ending its prospects of being passed in the “upper chamber” of Congress. In order to get the bill past a Senate filibuster, at least 10 Republican votes are required.
The bill sought to address the slew of anti-voting rights legislation being passed in Republican-controlled states across the country. Many GOP state lawmakers have been proposing restrictive legislation to address false claims that election fraud affected last year’s presidential race, a lie frequently purported by former President Donald Trump and his allies, in spite of evidence that proves otherwise.
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
January 20, 2022 at 3:15 pm EST By Taegan Goddard
McCarthy Open to Electoral Count Act Reform
January 20, 2022 at 1:48 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 64 Comments
“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday joined his Senate counterpart in entertaining potential reform of the 135-year-old law that Donald Trump allies used to fuel their case against certification of the 2020 election,” Politico reports
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DONNIE WON'T LIKE THAT. HIS GRIP ON THE GOP KEEPS LOOSENING.
lOL Mitch said it, not Taggard, lol.
“The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African-American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell, at a press conference.
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Ummm... Mitch, they ARE Americans.
That was Cocaine Mitch's point
ROFLMFAO !!!
I noted your GODdard plagiarism for you
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/20/extra-bonus-quote-of-the-day-686/
So there is no voter suppression
Good
Did you see all the polls that came out today ?
FANTASTIC NEWS !!!
unless you are a dwindling eleven percenter
or a drooling retard
The percentage of blacks who are voting is as high as the percentage of Americans who are voting.
Gee, I thought black American citizens ARE Americans.
Gee, I thought black American citizens ARE Americans.
They ARE and vote at the same percentage as America as a whole
no voter suppression
Easy to see unless you can't comprehend basic math and logic
guess that leaves out the POS "pastor"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Georgia Prosecutor Requests Special Grand Jury for Trump
January 20, 2022 at 12:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is requesting a special grand jury to aid in her investigation of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
“Special grand juries, which typically have 16 to 23 members, can’t issue indictments. But they can subpoena witnesses, compel the production of documents, inspect and enter into certain offices for the purposes of the investigation.”
New York Times:
“The distinction of a special grand jury is that it would focus exclusively on the Trump investigation, whereas regular grand juries handle many cases and cannot spend as much time on a single one.”
THEM WALLS JUST KEEP ON CLOSING IN...
Nigel Farage: Under Biden, America no better ‘than a bad joke’ on world stage
Nigel Farage, Brexit Party leader talks Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s recent COVID Scandal and Biden’s ‘bad joke’ foreign policy. Farage comments on the recent scandal involving details of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s breaking his own COVID lockdown rules last year, saying that ‘lawmakers cannot ever be seen as lawbreakers’, ‘and this is ‘Boris’s problem’, ‘he’s a cheerleader, not a leader’, great at ‘getting a crowd cheering and making everybody happy’, ‘but when it comes to being a leader, he doesn’t lead by example’. Farage went on to discuss President Biden’s foreign policy appearance by the world, saying in terms of America’s ‘presence on the international stage, and what it says of the leader of the free world being taken seriously, America right now is no better than a bad joke’.
https://justthenews.com/podcasts/john-solomon-reports/nigel-farage-under-biden-america-no-better-bad-joke-world-stage
RAGA
https://twitter.com/RepublicanAGs/status/1484274862764195840
Since @JoeBiden took office, @RepublicanAGs have been aggressively standing up for the Constitution and rule of law in the face of an unprecedented number of illegal regulatory and executive actions by the Biden Administration.
Worst president ever
and in record time
Wall Street’s Pandemic Bonanza
January 20, 2022 at 11:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard 24 Comments
John Cassidy:
“Two years to the week after the first Covid-19 cases in this country were confirmed, it’s increasingly clear who the biggest economic winners have been. The tech giants that benefited from the shift to remote work, such as Amazon and Microsoft, are the most obvious ones, but the list also includes major Wall Street banks and large financial firms.
“Last Friday, JPMorgan Chase, the biggest bank in the country, announced that it had made a post-tax profit of $48.3 billion in 2021. Nearly fifty billion dollars. That’s about thirty-five per cent more than the thirty-six billion dollars that JPMorgan Chase made in 2019, the year before the pandemic, which was itself a record figure.
“On Tuesday, Goldman Sachs announced record post-tax profits of $21.6 billion for 2021. The past twelve months have been such a stellar period for the firm that, according to Bloomberg News, it is preparing to give some of its most senior employees two year-end bonuses.
“It’s hard to exaggerate the extent to which the current Wall Street bonanza is a product of the stimulative policies that the Fed and Congress introduced to lessen the pain of the pandemic.”
BUT NOW WE NEED TO TAKE ACTIONS ON HOW WE CAN HELP MAIN STREET AND NOT JUST WALL STREET.
THAT ALWAYS TAKES DEMOCRATS TO DO.
JUST LOOK AT OUR HISTORY.
PICTURE:
https://gab.com/MajorPatriot/posts/107655418078160495
sure makes you wonder
Trump Held Secret Meetings Days Before Attack
January 20, 2022 at 8:23 am EST By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham told the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack that Donald Trump hosted secret meetings in the White House residence in days before January 6, The Guardian reports.
Grisham’s interview “was more significant than expected.”
My, my.
SCOTUSblog
https://mobile.twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1484269964722855940
JUST IN: The Supreme Court, over dissents from the three liberal justices, rejects a request from Texas abortion clinics to immediately return the litigation over Texas' six-week abortion law to a federal district court.
https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21-962_n6io.pdf
Maybe the rule of law will return to America
and democrats will be in their deserved dustpan in history
"SECRET MEETINGS"
ROFLMFAO !!!
Reminds me. has Obama/Biden ever come clean on their Jan 2016 meetings to sabotage the Trump presidency ?
You know the FAKE Trump/Russia collusion they fueled ?
Would be a great thing to revisit
Cernovich
PICTURE:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1484259688677928963
5 years ago today I was getting pepper sprayed while reporting on the anti-democratic riots led by far left wing terrorists, which sought to interrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
Literally cried less than Adam Kinzinger.
INSURRECTION !!!
Scientists Who Were Instrumental to COVID-19 ‘Natural Origins’ Narrative Received Over $50 Million in NIAID Funding in 2020-2021
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the NIAID, makes a phone call during a break in a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Jan. 11, 2022.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/scientists-who-were-instrumental-to-covid-19-natural-origins-narrative-received-over-50-million-in-niaid-funding-in-2020-2021_4220769.html
Wait, Fauci paid out $50 million dollars to try and protect his flank ?
War Criminal
He needs to face a trial
Scientists Who Were Instrumental to COVID-19 ‘Natural Origins’ Narrative Received Over $50 Million in NIAID Funding in 2020-2021
Epoch times is as credible as you, fucked......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
anonymous said...
Epoch times is as credible as you, fucked.
THANKS !!!
I figured it was a top-notch source
Won't even dig any deeper
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
Where and when were ANY committed?
Arizona Maricopa County election audit found thousands of invalid ballots counted, including several thousand from people no longer living in the county or even the state.
Georgia has already (quietly) arrested people and are now actively investigating a ballot harvesting scheme that according to a witness who took part... involved operatives paying harvesters to collect ballots and drop them in the "drop boxes" that have been declared to be illegal by judges. This witness was paid 30,000 between the general and run off elections. The estimates are that at least 100,000 ballots in both elections were dropped off in ballot boxes illegally... more than enough to have changed the outcome.
Over 131 million dollars in private donations to election officials for Covid was diverted to get out the vote campaigns in Democratic districts in several battleground states. Wisconsin and others have open investigations of the local election officials in regards to whether these funds were actually used for covid or illegally used for campaign/GOTV drives.
Let's not forget video footage of Fulton county election officials running ballots through multiple times and then bragging about it on other video.
How many "post-election" rulings have Judges (a day late and dollar short) ruled that executive orders and "guidance" from Democratic Governors and Secretary of States were in violation of the laws in place and should not have been followed?
But it doesn't really matter to you Reverend.
In one ear and out the other. Election fraud could hit you along side the head like a two by four and like an idiot you would declare "well no election was overturned" as if that is the end all be all.
So please... you have your opinion...
I will continue to tell the truth.
Didn't Manchin already attempt that route and got NOTHING FROM HIS R FRIENDS???????
Actually there is a lot that Democrats like Manchin and Republicans agree on. It's the other crap like gutting Voter ID laws, putting southern states back under the thumb of the Federal Government, legalling ballot harvesting, etc... that was the hold up.
It wasn't stuff that Manchin and the GOP agreed upon.
Jesse Kelly
https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1484221115153231872
We all know what happened with Biden’s idiotic Russia remark. That’s something he’s discussed privately with his advisors and he lacks the brain power to stop himself from saying it publicly and giving away our strategy.
Joe Biden is an national security risk.
kind of like his "the most extensive and inclusive Voter Fraud Organization" remark before the 2020 "election"
more likely than unlikely and most Americans are coming to that conclusion
despite state media and big tech
I figured it was a top-notch source
Well you figured wrong again and again and again.......>BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
The percentage of blacks who are voting is as high as the percentage of Americans who are voting.
Gee, I thought black American citizens ARE Americans.
And here I thought they were discriminated against and that people like you continued to argue that they are not smart enough to figure out a voter ID or how to find a moved polling station.
So are you suggesting that Mitch is lying and that blacks do not vote at the same rate as everyone else? Or are you just being part of the childish grammar police.
dy attempt that route and got NOTHING FROM HIS R FRIENDS???????
Actually there is a lot that Democrats like Manchin and Republicans agree on
Actually you should answer the question instead of changing the subject again, Lil Schittt!!!!!
Your MO.....obfuscate and move on......sorry sport....
Lexington Herald-Leader
With gaffe on voting rights, Mitch McConnell confirms what many already fear
Linda Blackford
Thu, January 20, 2022, 3:38 PM
Of course, Sen. Mitch McConnell made a gaffe on Thursday when he said that African-Americans were voting at the same rate as Americans, leaving out the word “white.”
But sometimes gaffes have a way of stating the truth. McConnell was explaining why democracy was in fine shape, despite the failure of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to progress in the U.S. Senate. And for white Americans, the rich white ones that Mitch works hard to represent, that’s probably true. Attempts to overturn the filibuster — used many times against civil rights legislation — failed. McConnell thinks we should suspend the filibuster only when he’s trying to pack the U.S. Supreme Court as he did in 2017.
For “other” Americans, the ones whose interests are not such a priority for McConnell, democracy doesn’t look so robust. So far, 19 state legislatures have passed 34 laws that add new voting restrictions. The federal bill would attempt to restore federal oversight of states that have had historical problems with allowing minorities to vote, such as Alabama, where John Lewis almost died at the hands of state troopers when he marched for the rights of Black people to vote.
Democrats like Sen. Rand Paul challenger Charles Booker jumped on McConnell: “Mitch has never cared about us. And today, he just happened to speak his mind, and said the quiet part out loud.”
He’s right. Restrictions on who can vote and how overwhelmingly hurt poor and minority voters, the ones who propelled Biden to victory. It took the federal government to ensure everyone the right to vote in the 1960s, and it will take the federal government to keep that right intact, it seems.
Of course, Sen. Mitch McConnell made a gaffe on Thursday when he said that African-Americans were voting at the same rate as Americans, leaving out the word “white.”
Nice try but this is a lie. I watched the interview.
The word he left out was "ALL". Not 'white.'
The minute I saw this story today I knew the usual suspects would run with it and deliberately take it out of context to score cheap points.
Former White House doctor demands Biden immediately take cognitive test
An Obama-era White House physician has called for President Biden to immediately take a cognitive test following his latest press conference.
https://thepostmillennial.com/former-white-house-doctor-demands-biden-immediately-take-cognitive-test
Maybe VERY lo iq could take one too but we already know what the result would be
Too low to register
ROFLMFAO !!!
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
GB News
WORTH WATCHING VIDEO
https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1483874550739836928
'I watched and felt like my entire life was falling apart because of what this government did to young people.'
Welcoming the removal of face coverings in schools, political commentator Sophie Corcoran breaks down as she recalls her experience of wearing a mask in the classroom.
A whole generation will be lost to democrats if we have fair elections without fraud
and they appear to know it
and it was all done to hurt Trump and went worldwide
Trump is getting nervous every day Scott.
Days after the Jan. 6 committee began receiving records from the National Archives following the Supreme Court’s rejection of former President Trump’s effort to bar the release of documents, some details have reportedly started to emerge regarding documents from Trump’s White House that the panel has received thus far.
According to Politico on Thursday, the committee has received four notable items: two drafts of tweets that the former president ultimately sent the day before the deadly Capitol insurrection last year, as well as a legal memo and a handwritten note on White House stationery.
The memo reportedly echoes arguments that Trump lawyer John Eastman made in the days leading up to the insurrection. Eastman argued that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s electoral victory on the day of the joint session of Congress. Pence, however, was not persuaded by Eastman.
It is currently unclear who wrote the memo or which of Trump’s draft tweets the committee obtained, according to Politico. The contents of the handwritten note have not been reported either.
Politico noted that the immediacy of the four notable documents signal that the committee will soon receive a wide variety of documents, some of which the panel could obtain on a daily basis.
Production of materials is ongoing.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court refused a request from Trump to block a subpoena from the committee for records about the Capitol insurrection. The 8-1 ruling allows the panel to receive records it requested in October from the National Archives. The records contain hundreds of pages, and include notes taken by White House staff during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
Trump had insisted that, as a former President, he could assert executive privilege over records created during his term. President Biden, however, decided against exercising privilege over the records the committee requested.
According to the Justice Department, some of the records Trump tried to block include: White House call logs and speech drafts for him dated Jan. 6, in addition to “a draft Executive Order concerning election integrity.”
The committee swiftly praised the Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday, saying that it had already started to receive the records that the former president hoped wouldn’t get in its hands.
Wow Roger....
That's a lot of words. None of them mean anything. Trump will not be convicted of any crimes and will likely run for President in 2024.
On September 24, the result of the so-called “audit” of the election results in Maricopa County by the Republican Majority in the Arizona Senate was finally announced. Though clearly initiated in bad faith and funded with the purpose of finding support for The Big Lie that the election was “stolen” from former President Trump, the Arizona Senate’s contractor Cyber Ninjas ultimately reported that President Biden had won the county and found no evidence of fraud.
Despite the lack of experience of the audit managers in the field of elections, the Cyber Ninjas report proposed a variety of amendments to Arizona’s election laws that would add further burdens on the voting rights of Arizona’s citizens. These legislative proposals are based on suspicions and conjectures, set out in the report, as to possible irregularities and deficiencies on the part of Maricopa County officials in the conduct of the election.
The Cyber Ninjas’ allegations were promptly refuted by county officials and other election experts, mostly Republicans. Nevertheless, they remain a cause for concern, as they serve to undermine public trust in the voting process. On July 1, we released a comprehensive chronology of the 2020 Arizona election and the subsequent Arizona Senate audit, followed by two commentaries in late July and mid-August. We have now updated the chronology to cover the entire period between the 2020 election and the announcement of the audit results, along with the two earlier commentaries.
We do so for two reasons. First, we believe the chronology and its related materials provide comprehensive documentation of what occurred in Arizona—including the lack of need for the audit, the serious bias and inexperience of those who conducted it, and the complete lack of transparency in the process—which thereby undercuts any credibility that might be accorded to the information presented in the audit to support its legislative recommendations.
The second is our deep concern that these self-appointed audits in Arizona and other states are designed not only to perpetuate the Big Lie that former President Trump won the 2020 election, but, even more insidiously, to delegitimize undesired outcomes in future elections. In this context, we hope that our materials may contribute to the vital need for continued broad-scale public education to combat this false narrative that threatens the very basis of our democratic system.
The 2020 election in Maricopa County had already been audited several times, including by two different federally certified election audit firms, prior to intervention by Cyber Ninjas. There was no need for the audit. Subsequent to the election, Maricopa County election officials completed various verifications that exceeded the requirements of Arizona law and fully supported the accuracy of the election results. These efforts included a bipartisan hand count of a substantial number of sample ballots, a review known as a logic and accuracy test that ensured that no changes were made to the software during the election process, and a forensic audit of ballot tabulation equipment conducted by two independent firms certified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
Governor Doug Ducey, a Republican, publicly defended the integrity of the November 2020 election. After the conclusion of the election, Ducey stated: “[t]here is integrity in our election system. Joe Biden did win Arizona.” Subsequently, the Biden electors in Arizona were duly certified by Arizona officials as having received the highest number of votes, which determination was accepted by the United States Congress on January 7. In the Senate race also being audited, the Republican candidate Martha McSally conceded on November 13 and has not contested the results.
So please... you have your opinion...
I will continue to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
A pro Trump firm conducted the investigation.
The audit has been almost entirely funded by groups associated with former President Trump. While the Arizona Senate appropriated $150,000 to provide initial funding for the audit, the vast majority of its funding has come from $6.7 million in donations from individuals or dark money groups who peddle allegations about massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election. In fact, recently disclosed Arizona Senate documents indicate that Donald Trump had expressed a personal interest in two of these groups, either to recommend to donors or to donate to them himself.
The pursuit by Cyber Ninjas of bizarre conspiracy theories has further undermined its own credibility. After commencing the audit in April, Cyber Ninjas undertook a variety of entirely unproductive efforts to find support for bizarre election fraud theories. These efforts included testing ballots for signs of bamboo to support the allegation that a large number of pro-Biden ballots were secretly shipped in from somewhere in Asia and examining ballots for watermarks on the theory that only valid ballots would contain them, whereas in fact Maricopa County did not use any watermarked paper for the election.
whereas in fact Maricopa County did not use any watermarked paper for the election.
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/truth-behind-results-maricopa-county-election-audit/?session=1
According to Politico on Thursday, the committee has received four notable items: two drafts of tweets that the former president ultimately sent the day before the deadly Capitol insurrection last year, as well as a legal memo and a handwritten note on White House stationery.
The house of representatives cannot indict Trump, but the Department Justice can.
If he directed someone else to break the law he can be charged with a crime.
https://tcf.org/content/commentary/truth-behind-results-maricopa-county-election-audit/?session=1
Fulton from 2020 you are still getting worse every day Scott..
Surveillance tape breeds false fraud claims in Georgia
By ALI SWENSONDecember 4, 2020
Surveillance footage of ballot processing on election night in Atlanta is fueling a false social media narrative of “suitcases filled with ballots” hidden under a cloth-covered table and tallied without supervision, even as top state officials confirm election workers followed standard procedure.
The video showed regular ballot containers on wheels — not suitcases — and both a state investigator and an independent monitor observed counting until it was done for the night, finding no evidence of improper ballots, state and county officials said on Friday.
That hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump, his campaign, his lawyers and his supporters from sharing the video with false fraud accusations in a spate of Facebook and Twitter posts that have racked up millions of views in less than 24 hours.
Here’s a look at the facts around this viral video:
CLAIM: Poll workers and partisan observers were told to leave Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on election night, but four election workers stayed behind, pulled suitcases full of ballots out from under a table, and scanned them after hours without any supervision.
THE FACTS: The video doesn’t show evidence of fraud, much less the “SMOKING GUN” evidence that Trump’s legal team claims on social media.
No one told observers they had to leave, and both an independent monitor and an investigator oversaw the vote count, according to state and county officials. Confusion arose when election workers thought they were done for the night, but then were instructed to continue scanning ballots. But investigators who reviewed the entire surveillance tape confirmed it showed “normal ballot processing,” according to Gabriel Sterling, a top official in the secretary of state’s office.
The video, which shows clips of surveillance footage from a room where ballots were counted, began gaining traction online on Thursday after volunteer Trump attorney Jackie Pick presented it for state senators during a hearing at the state Capitol.
Pick claimed it showed a staff member telling partisan observers to leave the facility for the night about 10:30 p.m. After observers were “cleared out,” she said, four election workers stayed behind, pulled suitcases of ballots out from underneath a table, and counted them for two hours with no witnesses present.
Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron refuted those claims on Friday, saying in a public meeting that no observers were ever told to leave the facility.
According to Barron, staff members who had been opening and flattening ballots for scanning started leaving the facility as their duties concluded.
Other election workers started to pack up, Sterling told The Associated Press in an interview. They put prepared ballots back in boxes and away under a table “to close out for the night.” Members of the media and Republican observers began to leave the building too.
Then, the supervisor onsite got a call from Barron, who instructed the team to continue scanning the ballots that had already been prepared. They pulled the same boxes of ballots back out, and resumed scanning, Sterling said.
“These aren’t magical ballots,” Sterling told the AP. “They didn’t show up out of some other room.”
Georgia law § 21-2-408 permits observers to stay in the room the whole time, but doesn’t require it for counting to take place.
After a short period when observers weren’t present, an independent state election board monitor arrived to oversee the scanning at 11:52 p.m., Barron said. A state investigator arrived at 12:15 a.m. Both individuals remained at the facility until the count concluded for the night, he said.
The Georgia secretary of state’s office said it was aware of the late-night counting, and confirmed that both its investigator and an independent monitor observed scanning “until it was halted for the night.”
The office said it had launched an investigation into why partisan poll observers left before scanning ended.
The president’s team is “intentionally misleading the public about what happened at State Farm Arena on election night,” Sterling tweeted Friday. “They had the whole video too and ignored the truth.”
You have been brainwashed and again symptoms.
.
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-georgia-media-social-media-e9a73462e39e7aa39683f0f582a6659e
Sure Roger...
Fulton election officials call everyone together. Every but three people then leave. Later two other officials show up (both Democrats). There are none of the poll watchers still there as all of them have stated they were told to leave.
But you believe the officials when they suggest that they "have no idea" why everyone left.
On top of that the Secretary of State website put out a release right after the meeting saying that Fulton County had stopped counting and had gone home for the night.
Apparently they have no idea how the SOS would have gotten such a belief either. Everyone but these three officials thought they were done counting and these three officials are the only ones telling the truth.
You will "literally" believe anything.
Roger.. was it you who was bragging on the stock Market earlier today?
It closed 300 points down again.
Crimes...up to ten
A year ago Thursday, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One for the final time in his presidency and retreated to Mar-a-Lago, refusing to stand witness for the swearing-in of Joe Biden.
It was a momentous day for Trump, marking the culmination of an electoral defeat he had pushed desperately to overturn. Now a full year out of office — and five years removed from his own swearing-in — Trump is closing in on anniversaries that carry more legal than political significance.
The five-year statute of limitations to prosecute any alleged federal crimes he committed while in office, after all, is ticking away.
Trump's tumultuous first year as president featured a string of episodes that came under scrutiny in the Russia investigation, an inquiry in which Special Counsel Robert Mueller examined whether Trump obstructed justice.
In his more than 400-page final report, Mueller's special counsel team documented 10 episodes of possible obstruction of justice by Trump. Among them were Trump's efforts in early 2017 to pressure then-FBI Director James Comey to close an investigation into Michael Flynn, who at the time was national security advisor. Trump later fired Comey, setting in motion the events that led to Mueller's appointment as the special counsel in charge of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The special counsel's office examined not just that episode but also Trump's effort to have Mueller himself removed. Mueller declined to make a decision about whether Trump broke the law, in part because of the Justice Department's longstanding policy that sitting presidents cannot be charged with a federal crime. But, at a closely-watching congressional hearing, Mueller acknowledged that Trump could theoretically be charged with obstruction of justice after leaving office.
Charging an ex-president with a federal crime would be an unprecedented first in American history. Still, in the eyes of Trump's critics, the Mueller report provided a playbook for prosecuting him.
But the Justice Department has been silent as the five-year deadline nears.
Scott You will "literally" believe anything that Trump says.
I'm certain that Sleepy Joe Biden has lied because every president has lied.
Objective thinking is beyond your abilities on politics but I hope not in your personal life.
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