Georgia Observer Affidavits Say They Were Told to Go Home
05 December 2020 07:08 PM EST
Under the penalty of perjury, Georgia poll observers said they were told to go home around 10 p.m. Election Day, which coincides with State Farm Arena
video showing the vote counting continuing for hours.
GOP poll monitors Mitchell Harrison and Michelle Branton signed affidavits that a woman told everyone Nov. 3 to stop counting ballots and to return 8:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 4, per the report,
according to The Epoch Times.
"This lady had appeared through the night, and Mitchell and I believed her to be the supervisor," Branton's affidavit read, per the Times.
Harrison said he sought answers about the shutdown from Fulton County Public Affairs Manager Regina Waller, but she refused to answer questions, his affidavit read.
The two Republican poll observers and the Fox News crews left, leaving just Waller and three others at the State Farm Arena's absentee ballot counting location.
When hearing the counting was ongoing, the observers said they returned at 1 a.m. Nov. 4 to see that the counting did continue, per the report.
"Our Republican observers and members of the news media departed State Farm when they announced they were shutting down for the night and would resume counting at 8:30 a.m. the next day," Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer said in a statement Thursday, adding those remaining behind "continued counting ballots in secret until 1 a.m."