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Georgia elections (I’ve sat in anchor
desks at 11 Alive, WSB and Fox5Atlanta on election nights from 2000
until moving to Florida in 2016)
there is one clear opinion: Fulton
can often be “a problem child” on
election nights, sometimes rivaled
only by DeKalb.
The “fact checking” media created more mystery when they kept
reporting a major water pipe burst at
State Farm Arena where votes were
tabulated for “the problem child.” Later “investigations” determined there
was no major flood, only a urinal
which overflowed and that it supposedly did not impact any ballots or
impede counting. But there is a most
interesting television interview with
a then-CBS 46 reporter and then-director of Fulton County elections.
The reporter stated that there were
approximately 40,000 ballots at the
arena during the “water main break”
and that they would be counted the
next morning.
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Now here is the very curious part.
In that same interview the Fulton
election director goes on to state that
the water issue “probably set us back
three or four thousand ballots.” So
even the overseer of the election was
saying that a urinal puddle had set
back what turned out to be a critical
number of ballots from being counted
on a timely basis. What followed was
a fiasco in which counting abruptly
stopped around 10:30 pm and resumed later after Republican election
observers and the media had left.
So, with a pandemic-caused flood
of drop boxes— not to mention certain
“non-partisan” groups that gave counties huge resources (all heavily Democratic) to churn out votes— came the
perfect storm for ballot counting to
go off the rails. The urinal flood just
added to the chaos.
I have never been a finger
pointer, and this column is not about
election officials or statewide elected
leaders. It isn’t about current Fulton
County leadership. It is about a media that contaminates what purports
to be objective news stories with the
editorial terms “false,” “debunked,”
and even “lies” when they describe
anything about the oddities of the
2020 contest by critics and questioners. That goes particularly for President Donald Trump, who had every
right to question those results.
News Bias: Dishonest or Ignorant?
As an attorney, it’s shocking
that these same news organizations
always assert that none of the legal
efforts related to contesting the
Georgia results or the process were
successful. This is either intellectually dishonest or a massive ignorance
of the legal process. The very reason
that the FBI was able to take into
its possession hundreds of boxes of
ballots possessed by Fulton County
is because of a judicial proceeding.
Attorney Bob Cheeley (whose
effort won him an indictment by the
