Just finished watching, here are the key points (this whole interrogation should've been 10 minutes instead of 2 hours):
- He does recant his statement that he heard them talking about backdating ballots
- He says he only overheard them talking about dates and he assumed they were backdating them
- He still stands by the fact that they were told to collect ballots on the 5th and 6th and separate them. Late ballots are supposed to be separated by law so this isn't a big deal, but we don't know if it's the USPS who is supposed to enforce that law. It could be an indication that they wanted to manipulate those ballots, it could also just be standard policy.
- He wrote 11/05/2020 on the only ballot he picked up that day because he was afraid they might try to backdate and count it. This lends some credibility to his "assumption" I mentioned earlier, memory gets foggy over time (and foggier while being interrogated) but something made him afraid of backdating on that day. An opposing lawyer would probably say he came into the situation paranoid and was simply projecting his own fears onto their conversation.
The ONLY noteworthy thing he still stands by is the fact that his supervisor (Stephanie) told them on Nov. 5th to keep collecting ballots because "Every vote counts". In PA, votes must be received by the board of elections by 8 p.m. on election day, they are not valid simply because they're postmarked before 8pm on that day. Any ballot collected on (or after) the 4th would automatically be invalid. Here is the law if you want to check that: https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/LI/uconsCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&yr=2019&sessInd=0&smthLwInd=0&act=77
In the end I think his testimony is pretty worthless now, at best it just raises the same questions we were already asking. We don't need a witness to know that the USPS was still collecting ballots after Nov. 3rd. What we need to know is exactly what happened to those ballots after they collected them.
Just finished watching, here are the key points (this whole interrogation should've been 10 minutes instead of 2 hours):
- He does recant his statement that he heard them talking about backdating ballots
- He says he only overheard them talking about dates and he assumed they were backdating them
- He still stands by the fact that they were told to collect ballots on the 5th and 6th and separate them. Late ballots are supposed to be separated by law so this isn't a big deal, but we don't know if it's the USPS who is supposed to enforce that law. It could be an indication that they wanted to manipulate those ballots, it could also just be standard policy.
- He wrote 11/05/2020 on the only ballot he picked up that day because he was afraid they might try to backdate and count it. This lends some credibility to his "assumption" I mentioned earlier, memory gets foggy over time (and foggier while being interrogated) but something made him afraid of backdating on that day. An opposing lawyer would probably say he came into the situation paranoid and was simply projecting his own fears onto their conversation.
The ONLY noteworthy thing he still stands by is the fact that his supervisor (Stephanie) told them on Nov. 5th to keep collecting ballots because "Every vote counts". In PA, votes must be received by the board of elections by 8 p.m. on election day, they are not valid simply because they're postmarked before 8pm on that day. Any ballot collected on (or after) the 4th would automatically be invalid.
In the end I think his testimony is pretty worthless now, at best it just raises the same questions we were already asking. We don't need a witness to know that the USPS was still collecting ballots after Nov. 3rd. What we need to know is exactly what happened to those ballots after they collected them.
Just finished watching, here are the key points (this whole interrogation should've been 10 minutes instead of 2 hours):
- He does recant his statement that he heard them talking about backdating ballots
- He says he only overheard them talking about dates and he assumed they were backdating them
- He still stands by the fact that they were told to collect ballots on the 5th and 6th and separate them. Late ballots are supposed to be separated by law so this isn't a big deal, but we don't know if it's the USPS who is supposed to enforce that law. It could be an indication that they wanted to manipulate those ballots, it could also just be standard policy.
- He wrote 11/05/2020 on the only ballot he picked up that day because he was afraid they might try to backdate and count it. This lends some credibility to his "assumption" I mentioned earlier, memory gets foggy over time (and foggier while being interrogated) but something made him afraid of backdating on that day. An opposing lawyer would probably say he came into the situation paranoid and was simply projecting his own fears onto their conversation.
The ONLY noteworthy thing he still stands by is the fact that his supervisor (Stephanie) told them on Nov. 5th to keep collecting ballots because "Every vote counts". In PA, votes must be received by the board of elections by 8 p.m. on election day, they are not valid simply because they're postmarked before 8pm on that day. Any ballot collected on (or after) the 4th would automatically be invalid.
In the end I think his testimony is pretty worthless now. We don't need a witness to know that the USPS was still collecting ballots after Nov. 3rd. What we need to know is exactly what happened to those ballots after they collected them.
Just finished watching, here are the key points (this whole interrogation should've been 10 minutes instead of 2 hours):
- He does recant his statement that he heard them talking about backdating ballots
- He says he only overheard them talking about dates and he assumed they were backdating them
- He still stands by the fact that they were told to collect ballots on the 5th and 6th and separate them. They're supposed to be separated by law so this is irrelevant.
- He wrote 11/05/2020 on the only ballot he picked up that day because he was afraid they might try to backdate and count it. This lends some credibility to his "assumption" I mentioned earlier, memory gets foggy over time (and foggier while being interrogated) but something made him afraid of backdating on that day. An opposing lawyer would probably say he came into the situation paranoid and was simply projecting his own fears onto their conversation.
The ONLY noteworthy thing he still stands by is the fact that his supervisor (Stephanie) told them on Nov. 5th to keep collecting ballots because "Every vote counts". In PA, votes must be received by the board of elections by 8 p.m. on election day, they are not valid simply because they're postmarked before 8pm on that day. Any ballot collected on (or after) the 4th would automatically be invalid.
In the end I think his testimony is pretty worthless now. We don't need a witness to know that the USPS was still collecting ballots after Nov. 3rd. What we need to know is exactly what happened to those ballots after they collected them.
Just finished watching, here are the key points (this whole interrogation should've been 10 minutes instead of 2 hours):
- He does recant his statement that he heard them talking about backdating ballots
- He says he only overheard them talking about dates and he assumed they were backdating them
- He still stands by the fact that they were told to collect ballots on the 5th and 6th and separate them. They're supposed to be separated by law so this is irrelevant.
- He wrote 11/05/2020 on the only ballot he picked up that day because he was afraid they might try to backdate and count it
The ONLY noteworthy thing he still stands by is the fact that his supervisor (Stephanie) told them on Nov. 5th to keep collecting ballots because "Every vote counts". In PA, votes must be received by the board of elections by 8 p.m. on election day, they are not valid simply because they're postmarked before 8pm on that day. Any ballot collected on (or after) the 4th would automatically be invalid.
In the end I think his testimony is pretty worthless now. We don't need a witness to know that the USPS was still collecting ballots after Nov. 3rd. What we need to know is exactly what happened to those ballots after they collected them.