You want to know why two sitting Senators were calling for Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State to step down?
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
We are allowed an unlimited number of observers but they must remain outside the yellow tape line.
— David Shafer (@DavidShafer) November 13, 2020
That’s horrible. Public observers can’t see anything related to the hand counting or auditing process. And having one credentialed observer for every ten tables is ridiculous. They all might as well be kept completely outside like they were in Philadelphia.
David Shafer, who tweeted this out, is the Chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. And he’s right, this doesn’t inspire any confidence in Raffensperger or this recount/auditing process. If Republican observers can’t get fair treatment in a Republican state, then we have a huge problem here.
Add to this that NBC just called the state of Georgia for Biden:
BREAKING: Joe Biden is the apparent winner in Georgia, according to the NBC News Decision Desk. https://t.co/ZsIGWgI2lL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 13, 2020
Look I don’t want to be too eeyore on this hand count/audit process. I do hope it’s honest, no matter the outcome. But when there are too few credentialed observers and public observers are pushed so far back that they can’t see what’s going on, how can we trust that election officials aren’t duping us?