re: Dennis Prager makes a great point: Why Dems cheated

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“toting suitcases full of ballots”

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The claim: A video purports to show ballots being pulled from a 'suitcase' at a polling center

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Election conspiracy theories abounded in the weeks after the 2020 election. Allegations of widespread voter fraud often used out-of-context images and unrelated documents to support false narratives.

A “smoking gun” video from a Georgia polling site purports to show poll workers fabricating and counting additional ballots after Republican poll observers had left for the night.

The conservative group Restoration PAC posted a copy of the video online and received several thousand interactions. USA TODAY reached out to the group for comment.

While some might find the actions of the workers at first confusing, the practice of storing ballots on-site is not unusual for poll workers, especially as ballots are being continuously tabulated over long hours. Election officials in the state have found no wrongdoing.

The viral surveillance footage was recorded at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, which was used as a polling site last month. In the video, taken in the days after the Nov. 3 presidential election, site workers, reporters and poll watchers can be seen leaving as others begin packing ballots into containers, which were inaccurately dubbed suitcases.

The video of the activities of the poll workers is not doctored or significantly altered. Insinuations that workers were packing away these ballots for nefarious purposes, however, are incorrect.

In reality, the workers were not placing the ballots in suitcases, but their proper storage containers. They were doing this because they thought their work was done for the day, and they could leave.

“What you saw – the secret suitcase with magic ballots – were actually ballots that had been packed into those absentee ballot carriers by the workers in the plain view of the monitors and the press,” Georgia Election System Implementation Manager Gabriel Sterling said, according to the Augusta Chronicle.

“They were under the misbegotten impression that they were getting to go home,” he continued. “They had been there all day long. They were tired and they thought they could go home.”

Learning the Fulton workers were planning to leave, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger made certain they did not.

Related claims that the ballots were somehow violated or made otherwise invalid in the process are unfounded. The actions on video are part of the routine ballot opening process.

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Again, we don’t investigate elections on the scale you’re asking for just because you don’t like the way something looks or sounds or smells. Using your criteria, every election since at least 1998 should have been investigated just as thoroughly.

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Why don’t we? Because the House always wins.

Look, I do not participate in this UniParty® charade because it is a vote for the left or right wing of the Deep State. And I get that you despise Trump and generally seem to be of the opinion that his followers are drooling, thick-browed rubes.

Yet love him or hate him, Trump’s re-election threatened to forever implode the entire UniParty® House of Cards and the duopolistic political consolidation that has been carefully constructed since at least the end of the Cold War. If you can’t recognize that, it is you that are living in a fantasy world.

You can keep posting that.

It skips over a few important things.

1). The ballot cases were not secured when they placed them under the table. If they were leaving for the night, the boxes should have been secured with tamper proof devices to protect the chain of custody of the ballots overnight. They were not.

2). There was no state election observer and no party elections judges there for almost an hour as they tabulated votes. Is that illegal?

I have zero doubt that people like Ruby Freeman felt obligated and talked with her cohorts about how important this particular election was to scheme and cheat.

They actually felt deep down they were doing nothing wrong.

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WHEN THEY HAVE ACTUAL VIDEO OF THEM TOTING SUITCASES FULL OF BALLOTS HIDDEN UNDER A TABLE AFTER THEY KICKED EVERYONE OUT.

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But the supposed “suitcases” were typical ballot containers used to secure ballots, Georgia’s Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs told us in a phone interview. Likewise, Matthew Mashburn, the state Senate’s appointee to the state election board, told us the video showed “standard secure containers that are ubiquitous in tabulation in Georgia.”

And Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voting system implementation manager, said that the full video showed that the containers were carrying ballots that were opened and processed earlier in the night. They weren’t suspicious ballots brought surreptitiously into the building, or ballots that were opened in secret.

“They were put in there about an hour earlier,” Sterling, a Republican, said by phone. He said of the Trump campaign: “They watched the same video tape.”

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Factcheck

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dEbUnKeD!

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It was...

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But state officials told us that the full video shows the supposed “suitcases” were actually standard containers used to secure ballots, and that the ballots in question were opened and prepared for counting earlier in the night in full view of observers. They said the campaign presented limited, selective parts of the footage.

That’s based on their review of the day’s video footage in full. Also, even though observers from the parties and press left the room before vote counting resumed, officials said, a state election board monitor and investigator from the secretary of state’s office both returned to watch the counting until its completion.

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Fact check

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Its always comical when some dunce throws out debunking artcles by the same people who’ve been the lying to us since Trump got in office

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You must be a Russian bot!

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There is nothing left to lose for these folks, nothing you consider “conservative” is satisfying to them anymore after Trump.

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There’s plenty to lose. He will come back around once the economy tanks because of a $15 federal minimum wage, higher oil prices and more energy dependency, unfettered illegal immigration, and universal healthcare.

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Washington Post

NY Times

Yahoo

Newsweek

I could post more links, but they all say basically the same thing.

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Whoa, look at all those unbiased news outlets