
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday announced elections officials will be conducting a hand recount and full audit of every single ballot that was submitted.
Raffensperger had announced last week they would be doing a recount after ballots turned up in the dead of night and pushed the state for Joe Biden.
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Following the announcement, the Trump campaign asked Georgia election officials to count all ballots by hand instead of using high-speed scanners, which they have agreed to do. This is the first time a full vote audit has ever been conducted in the state.
Susan Knox, a GOP observer attending the hand recount in Cobb County, Georgia on Friday said what is happening is “horrible for the integrity of our election process.”
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Observers cannot see what the ballot counters are actually doing.
Does this inspire confidence?
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WATCH:
One of our observers at the hand count of the ballots ordered by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Does this inspire confidence? pic.twitter.com/jRoFCvqWoZ
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) November 13, 2020
David Shafer, Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party said GOP observers are limited to one credentialed monitor for each ten counting tables.
“Congressman Doug Collins and I asked for a one to one ratio yesterday but our request was refused,” David Shafer said.
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We are limited to one credentialed monitor for each ten counting tables. Congressman Doug @CollinsforGA and I asked for a one to one ratio yesterday but our request was refused.
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) November 13, 2020
Recall, elections officials in Fulton County, Georgia claimed they stopped counting ballots on election night after a pipe burst at the State Farm Arena.
But there is no evidence that a pipe actually burst.
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It appears the story was used as an excuse to count ballots in secret in the dead of the night.
David Shafer said: “Fulton County elections officials told the media and our observers that they were shutting down the tabulation center at State Farm Arena at 10:30 p.m. on election night only to continue counting ballots in secret until 1:00 a.m.”
Let me repeat. Fulton County elections officials told the media and our observers that they were shutting down the tabulation center at State Farm Arena at 10:30 p.m. on election night only to continue counting ballots in secret until 1:00 a.m.
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) November 10, 2020