1/ Georgia State Senate Hearing Live Tweet Thread:

The current Senate witness, J. Hutton Pulitzer, claims that the state's ballot auditors audited reproduction ballots because the original ballots are missing.

2/ This is concerning because previous witnesses testified that stacks of ballots appeared to be machine-made missing telltale creases and having identical vote markings for Biden and no other candidates.
3/ J. Hutton Pulitzer states his team can review 100% of Georgia's ballots to determine if they are REAL or FAKE within two hours. The State of Georgia has refused to allow any examination of the ballots for authenticity.
4/ J. Hutton Pulitzer claims he can determine the authenticity of the ballots from the State Farm Arena within hours if the state will make them available to his company. He calls the physical ballot the Holy Grail.
5/ The Senate has moved to compel the Georgia Secretary of State to turn over the physical ballots. The fight will likely end up in the courts as the Secretary of State has refused to comply with the Senate's request.
6/ The current witness is describing how Georgia fired several witnesses who have testified under oath that election fraud was rampant during the 2020 election in Georgia.
7/ It is now looking like the Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who selected the Dominion Voting System for the state is now engaged in a coverup of election fraud in the state to justify his purchase decision.
https://t.co/zKYwZm14TH
8/ Georgia conducted their ballot audits in secret by the same people who originally counted the ballots.
9/ Georgia Secretary of State has refused to investigate reports of election fraud made by election workers throughout the state.
10/ Fulton County, Georgia has a long history of election fraud and yet the Secretary of State will not allow any examination of ballots from the Atlanta area.
11/ Witness testified that ballots in Atlanta were shredded in violation of the law in November after the certification of the vote to prevent a physical recount or audit of the vote. She provided video and pictures of the ballots being shredded.
12/ Note for future reference: Don't shred ballots during a hotly contested election - it is a bad look. Georgia election officials claim they were shredding old ballots, not current ballots. Also, I don't believe them...
13/ Testimony of Jovan Pulitzer is making waves. He proved that Republican ballots were printed differently from Democratic ballots to prevent Dominion machines from reading them:

https://t.co/sSub5Glz75
14/ Testimony from multiple witnesses proves that stacks of Biden ballots were run over and over in Fulton County.

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