{"id":6271,"date":"2020-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-partially-bends-the-knee-acknowledges-ballots-were-counted-unlawfully-and-in-secret\/"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T13:26:47","slug":"georgia-secretary-of-state-partially-bends-the-knee-acknowledges-ballots-were-counted-unlawfully-and-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-partially-bends-the-knee-acknowledges-ballots-were-counted-unlawfully-and-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Secretary of State Partially Bends The Knee, Acknowledges \u2018Ballots Were Counted Unlawfully And In Secret\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-secretary-of-state-partially-bends-the-knee-acknowledges-ballots-were-counted-unlawfully-and-in-secret%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=6271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h4>After Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/evidence-video-shows-georgia-vote-counters-pull-ballots-out-of-black-suitcases-after-sending-everyone-home\">bombshell security footage<\/a> that showed vote counting observers being sent home, only for vote counters to pull black suitcases full of votes from underneath a table and begin processing them in the early hours in the morning, the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office conceded that \u201cballots were counted unlawfully and in secret.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p>David Shafer, Chair of the Georgia Republican Party, posted the security camera video from Thursday\u2019s hearing on his Twitter account and wrote, \u201cNot sure why Twitter has labeled this \u2018disputed\u2019. It is video from the surveillance camera at State Farm Arena where Fulton County election workers scanned ballots late into the night after falsely announcing they were shutting down.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From today\u2019s hearing at the State Capitol. Not sure why Twitter has labeled this \u201cdisputed.\u201d It is video from the surveillance camera at State Farm Arena where Fulton County election workers scanned ballots late into the night after falsely announcing they were shutting down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IhyMnf7BXo\">https:\/\/t.co\/IhyMnf7BXo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Shafer (@DavidShafer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidShafer\/status\/1334580765791834114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After an NPR and GBP News journalist, Stephen Fowler, falsely reported that the Georgia Secretary of State and Georgia Republican Party engaged in \u201cslight goalpost-moving comments,\u201d Shafer corrected that\u00a0 the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office, led by the thus-far unhelpful Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, have amended their stance, and it has always been the Georgia Republican Party\u2019s stance that ballots were counted illegally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore false reporting from Stephen Fowler of @GPBNews,\u201d wrote Shafer. \u201cAlthough originally reporting that state monitors were present,\u201d the Georgia Secretary of State \u201cnow acknowledges that this was untrue, as video shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More false reporting from Stephen Fowler of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gpbnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GPBNews<\/a>. Although originally claiming that state monitors were present, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaSecofState?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GaSecofState<\/a> now acknowledges that this was untrue, as the video shows. Our position is unchanged. Ballots were counted unlawfully and in secret. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/saoNgpS9eb\">https:\/\/t.co\/saoNgpS9eb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Shafer (@DavidShafer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidShafer\/status\/1334599190748524546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/video-trump-slams-georgia-gov-brian-kemp-says-im-ashamed-that-i-endorsed-him\">READ MORE: Trump Slams Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Says \u2018I\u2019m Ashamed That I Endorsed Him\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position is unchanged,\u201d he said of the Georgia Republican Party. \u201cBallots were counted unlawfully and in secret.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schafer added, \u201cEven had state monitors been present, the law still requires that ballot counting be open to partisan monitors and the public. But state monitors were not, present,\u201d which the Georgia Secretary of State \u201cnow acknowledges and the video shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, both Republican U.S. Senate candidates, Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue, have called for Raffensperger to resign from his position as Secretary of State immediately. However, Loeffler and Purdue have stopped short of calling for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, to call a special session of the legislature so state legislators can address issues of election irregularity and determine whether the state\u2019s 13 Electoral College votes should be assigned to President Donald Trump or to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/breaking-georgia-begins-second-recount-as-kemp-trump-campaign-push-for-signature-verification\">READ MORE: Georgia Begins Second Recount Trump Campaign Pushes Raffensperger For Signature Verification<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger has also failed failed to call for signature verification of mail-in ballots during Georgia\u2019s second recount, in a move many Republicans, including President Trump, say has so far made the recount a meaningless exercise.<\/p>\n<p>While Shafer says the Secretary of State\u2019s office is now in agreement on the issue of votes being counted illegally, National File was unable to locate a public comment made by Raffensperger to this effect.<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/tag\/brad-raffensperger\">Brad Raffensperger<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/tag\/brian-kemp\">brian kemp<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/tag\/david-shafer\">David Shafer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/tag\/georgia\">Georgia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/tag\/president-trump\">President Trump<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalfile.com\/tag\/voter-fraud\">voter fraud<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Thursday\u2019s bombshell security footage that showed vote counting observers being sent home, only for vote counters to pull black suitcases full of votes from underneath a table and begin processing them in the early hours in the morning, the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office conceded that \u201cballots were counted unlawfully and in secret.\u201d David &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}