Thread by @BrendanKeefe

I’ll be live-tweeting this Cobb Elections Board hearing below

https://twitter.com/brendankeefe/status/1339970210942627845

3:11 still waiting for all attendees to join. It was mentioned before the meeting has even started that one of the challengers has added nearly 30,000 more voters to the list she wants removed/prevented from voting in the US Senate runoffs.

The meeting has started at 3:13pm EST

Announcing a third challenge from Pam Reardon, adding it to the agenda even though it was just filed (to disqualify another nearly 30,000 voters). Board unanimously agrees to hear the third challenge now.

There may be some overlap between the Shepherd database and the new Reardon list. So it could be 49,000 voters or less depending on overlap.

For reference: a little more than 380,000 voters cast ballots in Cobb County for the Ossoff/Perdue race on Nov. 3

"We're 19 days before the election, and this list is not a fact" - Cobb County Board of Election counsel, saying he does not believe the National Change of Address list is probable cause to remove them from the rolls.

Watch live here:
11alive.com/article/news/p…

The voters would NOT be disqualified, but they would be 'challenged' and would have to vote provisionally. Attorneys are advising the Board that "massive list maintenance" is banned by federal law this close to (or during) an election.

Public comment has been disabled for this meeting

Jessica Brooks, the lone Democrat on the Board, is saying there is not enough proof to move forward with accepting these challenges.

Janine Eveler, the Cobb Election Director, says a check of some of the names on one of the lists of challenged voters shows that in many cases their registration has been transferred to their new county/state.

Chair say we have a lack of evidence and ask for a motion. There is a second to NOT accept all three challenges.

#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. The denied the challenges saying there is no probable cause.

Meeting is adjourned. The challenges are DENIED.