BREAKING NEWS – Atlanta, Georgia – David Shafer, the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, took to Twitter to suggest election officials in Fulton County tried to pull a fast one on election night.
Shafer said county election officials told “the media and our observers that they were shutting down the tabulation center at State Farm Arena at 10:30 p.m. on election night only to continue counting ballots in secret until 1:00 a.m.”
He continued, “No one disputes that Fulton County elections officials falsely announced that the counting of ballots would stop at 10:30 p.m. No one disputes that Fulton County elected officials unlawfully resumed the counting of ballots after our observers left the center.”
The Georgia Democratic Party issued a statement on the discrepancy. “The time confusion was an honest mistake. The State Farm Arena is a very large facility, and some of the people counting the ballots thought the arena was so large, that it had two time zones. Besides, we’re all southerners, so what do we know?”