🧵False State Farm Arena claims
counting stopped at 10:30pm ❌
Republican observers sent home ❌
fake water main break leak ❌
suitcases of ballots ❌
hidden under tables ❌
ballots scanned multiple times ❌
"it's all a fraud" confession ❌
illegal to count without observers ❌
🛑 Counting stopped at 10:30pm ❌FALSE
Workers started to pack up around 10pm, but were told at 11pm by election officials to continue to scan the remaining ballots.
Surveillance video shows that scanning was continuous through 10:30pm.
[Carter Jones Notes; SEB2020-059 p4-5]
🍑 Republican observers sent home ❌FALSE
Affidavits and the monitor notes confirm that observers chose to leave. Surveillance video shows that they left while ballots were being scanning.
[Carter Jones Notes; SEB2020-059, p8-9]
💦 Fake water main break leak ❌FALSE
A water leak occurred very early morning on Nov 3, 2020, before counting had started. Some news outlets misreported the nature and timing of the leak.
[State Farm Arena statement, Carter Jones Notes; SEB2020-059, p4-5]
🧳Suitcases of ballots ❌FALSE
The "suitcases" were official ballot containers. Workers filled, sealed and stowed away uncounted ballot crates under tables when packing up, before being told to continue scanning.
[Carter Jones Notes; SEB2020-059 p4,9]
🙈 Ballots hidden under tables ❌FALSE
Uncounted ballots were stored in ballot boxes, sealed and placed underneath tables in a certain order so the staff would know where to begin the next day. [SEB2020-059]
🖨️ Ballots scanned multiple times ❌FALSE
According to scanner logs and online ballot images, the ballots scanned on election night were only tabulated once. The monitor noted scanners had been jamming regularly. A batch is only tabulated after it has scanned successfully.
[Carter Jones Notes; SEB2020-059 p9-10; Callaway Deposition]
🚨 Ruby's "it's all a fraud" confession ❌FALSE
The out-of-context quote is from a Dec 2022 Georgia Record article with an incomplete and inaccurate transcript.
They chose not to include Ruby's answers about the ballots in the containers: honest ballots
⚖️ It's illegal to count ballots without observers ❌FALSE
Observers are allowed, not required. There is no law that observers must be present during counting.
The observers at State Farm Arena chose to leave while ballots were still being scanned.
✅ Investigators concluded that the election workers followed proper procedures.
Scanning continued under instructions from election officials, which is legal.
[SEB2020-059 p4,9]
🗳️ Official investigations, including a full hand tally of paper ballots and a Trump-requested machine recount by rescanning all the ballots, found no evidence that alleged improper actions at State Farm Arena impacted election results.
SOURCE
Secretary of State Investigations Division
Report of Investigation
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CASE NAME: Fulton County-Poll Worker Fraud
SEB CASE #: SEB2020-059
INVESTIGATOR: Gilbert C. Humes
DATE OF REPORT: March 7, 2023sos.ga.gov/sites/default/…
SOURCE
Garland Favorito v. Alex Wan et al
Response of the Georgia Secretary of State to the Court's Order of September 20, 2021 ~ Oct 2021
🔗voterga.org/wp-content/upl…
SOURCE
Seven Hills Strategies, Carter Jones [monitor]
State Election Board Report – November 13, 2020 Unabridged Notes Detailing Everything Witnessed Nov 2-Nov 7, 2020
🔗justthenews.com/sites/default/…
SOURCE
Republican observer
Exh. 28 – Affidavit of Mitchell Harrison ~ Nov 2020
🔗storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
SOURCE
Statement Regarding Absentee Ballot Tabulation at State Farm Arena ~ 3 Nov 2020
🔗statefarmarena.com/news/detail/st…
SOURCE
Garland Favorito v. Alex Wan et al
Deposition of Chief Investigator, James Callaway ~ 5 May 2021
from p42
🔗voterga.org/wp-content/upl…
SOURCE
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C
Interview of: Ruby Freeman ~ 31 May 2022
🔗govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GP…
SOURCE
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C
Interview of: Wandrea Arshaye Moss ~ 1 Jun 2022
🔗january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/sites/democrat…
SOURCE
Pearson v. Kemp
Affidavit of Frances Watson ~ 5 Dec 2020
🔗courtlistener.com/docket/1869465…
SOURCE
Retraction by OAN after settling with Freeman and Moss in a defamation lawsuit.
Part of a series debunking the State Farm Arena/Ruby Freeman disinformation
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