A Question For Science Chic

Thank you Rick, I did have a good Thanksgiving, and I hope your family did as well.

I watched the video, and it appears that the time stamp says November 3, which is the day of the election. What I don't hear in that video is any evidence of voter fraud. I don't understand why they asked everyone to leave, and appeared to keep counting, but this would've been the original counting of the ballots, correct? So if there was a discrepancy between the initial machine and the audit conducted by manual hand-count, then I would agree that there is something wrong. However, the hand tabulation matched the results of the machine count and was certified by the [Republican] Secretary of State. I have yet to see any evidence of ballot manipulation removing votes for Trump or adding votes for Biden.

I highly distrust YouTube videos as evidence of anything. Videos can easily be manipulated and lack context. For example, one I posted about in an earlier thread was the Trump parade in San Antonio following the Biden campaign bus that appeared to show a Trump supporter's vehicle striking a vehicle of a member of Biden's team following the team bus - it went viral on social media and there was outrage galore. However, upon examination of all the evidence, the local police department stated that, in fact, the Biden team member's vehicle was at fault, not the Trump supporter. That video that went viral showed no such thing, and yet it was accepted as "fact" by Biden supporters. The video of George Floyd dying was horrific and rightly sparked calls for changes in police procedure, but it also didn't even tell the whole story. Sorry, but my standards are way higher than a clip like this will ever meet.

The only video I accept (almost) unconditionally is raw, unedited videos of court hearings, congressional hearings, and community meetings. No splicing, no editorial by others, just the speakers heard themselves. I've seen far too much manipulation to trust otherwise.

Votes are being audited in Georgia – but don’t call it a recount
The audit is meant to ensure that voting machines worked correctly, and was not prompted by allegations of fraud. State officials don't expect that the 14,000-vote margin favoring President-elect Joe Biden over President Donald Trump will change significantly.
By Christina Cassidy Associated Press, posted on Christian Science Monitor | November 13, 2020

Georgia says it’s going to be tallying – by hand – nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov. 3. But is it a recount? An “audit”? And why are they doing it?

Is this an official recount?
No. State election officials have said this is not a recount, rather a post-election audit.

The main difference between the two: A recount is typically tied to determining a winner when there's a close margin in an election, whereas post-election audits are routine and used by states to ensure that equipment and procedures counting the vote all worked properly.

In Georgia, for instance, a recount is conducted using the same scanners that read and tallied the unofficial results already released. The audit is being done by hand.

And recounts in Georgia generally take place after election results are certified by the state. That hasn’t happened yet. Once an election is certified, a trailing candidate can request a recount if the margin is less than 0.5 percentage points. Mr. Biden currently leads by 0.28 percentage points, so Mr. Trump could still request a recount later.

Georgia officials certify election results showing Biden win
By KATE BRUMBACK, AP News | November 20, 2020

Fact Check: Video Doesn't Show Election Fraud In Georgia
By: Saranac Hale Spencer, Georgia Public Boradcasting (GPB) | December 3, 2020

A two-and-a-half-minute video showing an election worker conducting an ordinary part of the recount process in Gwinnett County, Georgia, has been spun into false claims of fraud.

This is just the most recent example in a surge of falsehoods aimed at undermining the results of the 2020 election.

“It has all gone too far. All of it,” Gabriel Sterling, who oversees Georgia’s voting system, said at a press conference on Dec. 1 in which he called on President Donald Trump and other elected officials to condemn violent rhetoric aimed at election workers. “A 20-something tech in Gwinnett County today has death threats and a noose put out today saying he should be hung for treason. … It has to stop,” Sterling said.

A recount requested by the Trump campaign had started about a week before, on Nov. 24. It was scheduled to end Dec. 2.

That recount was the second review of Georgia’s election outcome. The first review was a full hand-count audit of paper ballots that was conducted under a new state law and was completed on Nov. 19. The audit confirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s win, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, certified the results of the state’s election.

After the results were certified, the Trump campaign was able to request the machine recount.

There were no substantial changes following the audit, either.

Live updates | Fulton County Board of Elections addresses State Farm Arena video
Author: 11Alive Staff | Published: 7:31 AM EST December 4, 2020

ATLANTA — Georgia's recount is, but for a hiccup in Fulton County, just about complete - and increasingly that formality is taking a backseat to the political and legal drama as President Trump's advocates continue down a path of attempting to invalidate the election.

The state's deadline to re-certify results is today. Once that is done, it will mark the official end of Georgia's election process, at least as far as the responsibilities of the state apparatus goes.

10:30 a.m. | Fulton County's Board of Elections during their meeting discussed the State Farm Video at length, and you can watch that discussion above. The county voted to certify its election results 3-2.

9:50 a.m. | Fulton Elections Director Rick Barron says death threats have been sent to the supervisor who was at State Farm Arena on election night, as well as her mother.

Fulton County elections board narrowly recertifies recount results in 3-2 vote
Author: Joe Ripley | Published: 2:31 PM EST December 4, 2020

Fact Check: Video From Georgia Does NOT Show Suitcases Filled With Ballots Suspiciously Pulled From Under A Table; Poll Watchers Were NOT Told To Leave
Dec 3, 2020 by: Alan Duke