Exclusion and Removal of Poll Watchers at State Farm Arena (GA)

Election officials at State Farm Arena in Fulton County told Republican poll watchers and media to leave the facility for the night, citing a false representation that counting had concluded. Once observers departed, workers pulled suitcases of pre-staged ballots from under a table and continued counting them without any lawful observer present. This act of deceptive exclusion constitutes the elimination of statutory oversight through fraudulent pretense, functioning as coercion of the oversight process itself.