Thread by @BrendanKeefe

Georgia's Cobb County (recently red to blue) is holding a hearing at 3pm to possibly disqualify 19,642 voters from the US Senate runoffs. Under GA law, any voter may challenge any other voter's right to vote & Board of Elections is required to hear it & determine probable cause.

The Cobb Board of Elections has four Republicans & one Democrat. While each party gets one seat, the other members are political appointments, including one member who was appointed by the soon-to-be-former county commission chair who was just defeated in the general election.

All the major offices of Cobb county -- held by Republicans -- were recently voted out and replaced with Democrats (Sheriff, Commission Chair, District Attorney, etc). While the county has turned blue/purple, the elections board remains deep red for now.

None of this indicated how they will vote on the challenges to the voter rolls. The Board recently voted to certify (and recertify) the presidential results that went for Joe Biden.

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We recently sued the Cobb Sheriff after he refused to turn over public records of jail deaths to our investigator @AndyPierrotti. The sheriff had invented an investigation to keep the records secret before the election. Sheriff lost the lawsuit & election.
11alive.com/article/news/i…

We also investigated Cobb County Police when 4 sober drivers were arrested for driving stoned but their blood tests were clean. Lieutenant who challenged our report 'retired' after he was caught on camera telling a white driver "we only kill Black people."

Here's where you can see the challenges themselves. Remember that change of address to out of state does not automatically disqualify military members serving outside Georgia, college students, overseas who legally maintain GA as their permanent residence.
cobbcounty.org/elections/news…

Looking at some of these, there are changes of address to other Georgia counties. They're prohibited from voting in both counties, but if they vote (once) for Senate in the wrong county, their votes would still count under Georgia's regs. Only local races are disqualified.

At least one of the two databases comes from the previous Trump Campaign challenges to the presidential race. It's still in the metadata filed with Cobb County:

Here's a couple of screenshots I took from the big database of voters they want to disqualify. APO is Army Post Office. FPO is Fleet Post Office. DPO is Diplomatic Post Office. These Georgia voters serving our country out of state/overseas.

#BREAKING One of the voter-challengers in Cobb County has added nearly 30,000 more voters to the list she wants to prevent from voting in the US Senate runoffs. Hearing starts shortly.

#BREAKING all three challenges to tens of thousands of voters in Cobb County before the US Senate runoffs have been DENIED on a 4-0 vote of the Board of Elections. They denied the challenges saying there is no probable cause.

The vote to DENY was 4-0
Pre or post-election litigation is expected. County attorneys referenced 'counsel' listening in on the public livestream.