Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger came out Saturday night and said there was an issue discovered with election reporting on Friday, Nov. 6 at the State Farm Arena in Fulton county.
Raffensperger tweeted out the following statement:
“Fulton has discovered an issue involving reporting from their work on Fri. Officials are at State Farm Arena to rescan that work. I have a monitor & investigators onsite. Also sent Dep. SOS as well to oversee the process to make sure to secure the vote and protect all legal votes.”
All eyes have been on Georgia since Wednesday after the initial bulk of ballots cast showed the presidential race between Biden and Trump was “Too close to call.”
Several falsehoods about the race in Georgia have circulated around social media this week including video of what was thought to be a poll worker in Atlanta throwing away a ballot. Richard Barron, the Fulton County elections director, said at a press conference late Friday that the 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.
“It’s been questioned whether the poll worker featured in the video was discarding one of those ballots. The answer is no, undeniably no,” Barron told reporters at the Fulton County elections warehouse in Atlanta. “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. The poll worker appears to gesture in an animated way, and then crumple up a small piece of paper.
One of those people to share the video was David Shafer, the chairman of Georgia’s Republican Party, who said, “Lawyers for the Georgia Republican Party have demanded that the Fulton County Board of Elections investigate and explain what is happening in this video.”
The worker’s personal information was also leaked online which forced him to vacate his residence and go into hiding.
As of Saturday evening, President-Elect Joe Biden held a lead of 9,160 votes over President Donald Trump according to a count from AP News. No word from officials on what the issue might have been or if it will change the current vote total.