More thoughts on ‘suitcase’ video
Thanks to James Hodges for his thorough response yesterday to Stan Boden’s letter printed December 4. Mr. Hodges covered pretty much all the bases, but I’ll add a couple of points that I don’t think he mentioned.
First, despite all the excitement this video has apparently caused for some, the story seems to have disappeared from the news cycle since, without ever being covered by any major news source aside from Fox – and even they’ve dropped it since Friday as far as I can tell.
Perhaps more telling is the fact that, in keeping with all their other legal actions which have thus far been presented without any supporting evidence, if this video was the bombshell Mr. Boden hoped, the Trump legal team would surely have used it. But, as with all of the other evidence Rudy Giuliani and others discuss at length at their “hearings,” this video is not brought up in court. Why? Because lawyers can lose their license for making fraudulent claims in that setting; there is no penalty for doing the same in a hotel conference room, however.
Until I read Mr. Boden’s letter, though, I was unaware of the existence of this video so, thanks to him, I found it and watched it. I don’t know how anybody viewing it could be convinced that it was unequivocal evidence of ballot tampering. Unless they just really, really wanted to. From the video I saw posted by an Atlanta TV news outlet it would have been impossible to that these ballots were being counted after all the other poll workers had been told to go home or to distinguish the source of the ballots to be ‘suitcases’ of illegal ballots as Mr. Boden claimed or as regular ballot containers as Mr. Hodges did.
Putting aside the fact that this video has been since debunked by a variety of sources including the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, I would hope that people would require a little more solid “evidence” than that before making up their minds what it shows.
Frankly, I find it astonishing how many fellow citizens believe that the sort of massive conspiracy they appear to suspect could succeed. When 20 people have a hard time keeping information secure, what chance would a scheme requiring thousands to do so, spread over at least a handful of states, if not more? And why not make the vote margin a little bigger and more convincing than 12,000 votes if you’re going to go to all that trouble? Not to mention have a Democrat or two more find their way into the Senate.
Without a runoff that is.
Paul Mack
Columbus
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