GA Poll Worker In Hiding After False Fraud Claims Surface Online
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING ATLANTA — With all eyes on Georgia’s razor-thin presidential vote margin, falsehoods are swirling on social media about supposed ballot counting irregularities there. Richard Barron, the Fulton County elections director, said late Friday that the poll worker seen in the video was discarding paper instructions, not a ballot, which would have been much larger than the paper seen in the video. Here’s a look at the facts: CLAIM: A video showing the ballot count in Fulton County, Georgia, shows fraud because a poll worker processing absentee ballots crumples one up. “At no time was the poll worker able to extract a ballot.” The widely shared video shows Fulton County poll workers processing absentee ballots at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena on Nov. 3. “If that is not voter fraud I don’t know what is.” David Shafer, the chairman of Georgia’s Republican Party, retweeted the video and wrote, “Lawyers for the Georgia Republican Party have demanded that the Fulton County Board of Elections investigate and explain what is happening in this video.” Barron said his review of the incident determined there was no way the poll worker in the video could have discarded a ballot.
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