Thread by @themarketswork

1) There's an ongoing selective addressing of facts from GA Secretary of State's office.

And it appears to continue in the declaration from the Chief Investigator for GA Sec of State.
courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

2) As Hans rightly notes, why would there even be a select group to only open envelopes?

But even if that's correct, it does not seem to gel with the investigator's own words.

https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1336064078595452928

3) Note the intentional conflation of dates in Item #6:

"...between November 3 and 4, 2020. Our investigation discovered that observers and media were not asked to leave..."

4) Once again from item #6

"Our investigation discovered that observers and media were not asked to leave. They simply left on their own when they saw one group of workers, whose only job was to open envelopes and who had completed that task, also leave."

5) But why would observers & media be focused on a group whose sole job was to open ballots if they concurrently believed there was another group still counting ballots.

After all, both groups were there to document actual election results. Not mundane opening of envelopes.

6) Now, contrast #6 with this from #7:

"Around 10:00 p.m....ballots that had already been opened but not counted [were] placed in the boxes, sealed up, stored under the table" because "employees thought they were done for the night and were closing up and ready to leave."

7) Note that ballots that previously been opened but not counted earlier were NOT "placed in boxes, sealed, stored under the table" UNTIL 10:00 pm when "employees thought they were done for the night."

8) Per SoS investigator, ballots were placed under the table because everyone thought counting was done for the night. Or acted as such.

Not because the group supposedly only opening envelopes thought they alone were done.

9) Even if your only job is to open envelopes BUT you believe the "separate" ballot counters' work to be ongoing, this explanation fails.

You would not suddenly place ballots into boxes and seal them.

Nor would those counting want them needlessly sealed.

10) SoS investigator inadvertently acknowledges this:

"When the counting continued into later in the night, those boxes were opened so that the ballots inside could then be counted."

But counting resumed shortly after everyone else left. And boxes were immediately opened.

11) Initially, we were told there were always observers present for the counting.

Then we were told a state observer was present.

Then we were told that observers were never "instructed" to leave.

12) @DavidShafer has repeatedly noted the announced shutdown of counting

As did both ABC and CBS News on the night of Nov. 3.

https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1334581514345000960?s=20

13) Like so many other explanations out of Georgia, the SoS investigator fails to fully address the underlying facts.

And the "explanations" from the GA SoS appear to consistently move in an ongoing attempt to match new facts as they emerge.