In a Trump campaign ad that appeared on Fox News, a poll of workers in Georgia claimed polls pulled out of overwhelmingly democratic areas after election observers went home. The ad shows footage of voters from election night in Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold that includes Atlanta.
The ad further claims that the neighboring “DeKalb County can find no chain of preservation documents,” citing an article in the Georgia Star News, a digital newspaper, published Dec. 5.
Following both of these allegations, the ad is asked to deceive fans into a Team Trump phone number and demand that their lawmakers hear the evidence.
Facts first: These claims are misleading at best.
While ballot boxes were drawn under a table at a location where the ballot was in Fulton County, at a time when observers were no longer present, state and provincial officials determined after reviewing the footage that the events in the video was part of the normal process, not fraud. This theory was also included as an example of fraud in an instruction filed by the Texas Attorney General that the U.S. Supreme Court did not want to consider.
When asked about the ad’s claims, DeKalb County provided CNN with the relevant chain conservation documents. A communications consultant hired by DeKalb County told CNN the ad’s claim “has no earnings” because they “delivered the same in response to public record requests,” also from the Georgia Star. The Georgia Star article quoted in the ad suggested that the country could not find the documents because in response to their Open Records request, they were told that ‘no response has yet been determined on your request. Not. ‘
At the time, however, provincial officials tentatively explained that any such delay was in the detection and provision of responsive records because remote working conditions and the workload of the Department of Voting, Registration and Election affected their response time.