during the Board of Registrations and Elections Special Meeting last night Fulton County Election Director Richard Barron talks about the "smoking gun" video and explains why what took place. The whole video is worth a watch, but I picked out some time stamps that are pertinent to what I'm discussing here.

Link: https://youtu.be/Jl3BQuIWFvU?t=610

10m15s:

I'll just address the timeline of that evening. The staff at State Farm that evening uhh, was, they began letting certain people go, no announcement was ever made to leave, for anyone to leave, uhh, certain staff that were on the cutting station, that were on the flattening station, that were extracting from the inner envelopes, those staff left as work completed

11m3s

At about 11:15 they were fully scanning again.

11m35s

They scanned until they had all the ballots that they had available to scan complete.

This struck me as odd because the scanners can process thousands of ballots per hour. Even if you had more workers opening envelopes than scanning ballots, it seems like it should take much much longer to get a ballot ready to be scanned, than to feed them through a machine. I tried to find evidence of this and stumbled on this video on 11/4, where Barron talks about why the process is taking so long:

Link: https://www.c-span.org/video/?477819-1/fulton-county-georgia-election-update

0m40s

We open them at these machines, then they go over to where they're flattened, then they go over to the scanner. It's a time consuming process.

2m22s

It's hard to hear but a reporter asks him something about scanners, I think they say, "How many scanners are you using and can you get more to speed the process?"

Essentially right now we've got 5 scanners, and because we only have 5 openers too… even if we brought in more scanners, that's not going to help at this point. What we need is more space. (I assume he means space for people to open ballots?)

3m22s

What takes the most time is…the cutters and extractors, it has to cut through two envelopes so you run through it twice, and then it goes over to the flatteners, and that is a manual process over there.

5m25s

reporter asks "what can hold you up tonight?"

it's mostly the space, at this point, umm, we might bring in some more tables and get some letter openers and try to start opening by hand to supplement what we have with those.

It seems they did indeed bring in more tables, according to this tweet and picture: New tables being brought in right now @StateFarmArena for more workers to process more absentee ballots. 24k left to go in Fulton County, officials tell me.

Since the slowest process is getting the ballots ready for scanning, it doesn't seem plausible to me that anyone could finish their work BEFORE the scanners. Yet Barron says workers were being sent home because they were done...except for these ballot scanners who somehow had HOURS and HOURS of simply feeding ballots through a machine left to do. If they did not inject ballots into the total at some point, how could the cutters and flatteners have been SO far ahead of the scanners?

If they didn't bring forged ballots in (which I still think is most likely), is it possible that over the course of the day they somehow isolated sets of ballots that heavily favored Biden, and then spent hours feeding them through (possibly more than once) them through the scanners? That might explain why those specific ballots were set aside under the table.