Georgia governor calls for 'signature audit' after seeing bombshell ballot stuffing videos

Gov. Brian Kemp has called for a "signature audit" of ballots in Georgia. This was in light of surveillance video that was screened Thursday at a Georgia Judiciary Committee meeting. The video showed what appeared to be ballot stuffing and the intentional obfuscation of ballot counting by supervisors at State Farm Arena on Election Day.

Kemp told Fox News "I called early on for a signature audit. Obviously, the secretary of state, per the laws and the Constitution would have to order that. He has not done that, I think it should be done.

"I think especially with what we saw today, it raises more questions. There needs to be transparency on that. I would again call for that. I think in the next 24 hours we'll see a lot more from the hearings the legislature had today and we'll see what the next steps are."

Attorney Jackie Pick narrated the surveillance video, saying that GOP observers were told to leave, as were press, and that it was after this dismissal of the poll observers that counting of previously unseen ballots began.

"Once the coast is clear," Pick said, "they are going to pull ballots out from underneath a table." Pick showed footage in which the remaining poll watchers pulled boxes of ballots out from under tables, and began running those through the scanning tabulation machines. This was allegedly not under any observation other than the surveillance cameras.

Another witness came forward at the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee came forward on Thursday and said that ineligible felons, minors, unregistered voters, voters who had voted in other states, voters who registered after the voter registration date, voters who registered illegally with a PO Box, voted in the Georgia general election.

He also said that 10,315 deceased persons cast ballots in that state. These ineligible votes comprise over 141,835 total votes that were cast in Georgia.

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, who certified the presidential election in the state for Joe Biden, had said that "It looks like Vice President Biden will be carrying Georgia, and he is our president-elect."

The second Georgia recount, Raffensperger said did not result in any "substantial changes." The final counts were due on Thursday night.

"We have seen no substantial changes to the results from any county so far, and that’s what we expected," Raffensperger said. "As many of us have said, we wish that our guy would have won the election. But it doesn’t look like our guy has won the election."

At issue in Georgia, however, is far more than the fate of the presidential election, but the fate of the US Senate. There are two senatorial races still under contention in that state, as current GOP Senator Kelly Loeffler faces off against Democrat challenger Raphael Warnock, and Republican David Perdue defends his seat against Jon Ossoff.

These two races were on the ballot in the general election on Nov. 3, but because the races were too close to call, a runoff election was triggered. Votes will again be cast in the Peach State on Jan. 5.

It is unusual for there to be two senate races in a state in the same year, but Loeffler was an appointment by Gov. Kemp after the previous senator resigned, which means that the winner of her race will serve the balance of that term, to 2023.

The balance of power in the Senate is up for grabs: the current seat count has 50 GOP senators to 48 of their counterparts across the aisle. If both Loeffler and Perdue were to lose their seats, Democrats, with incoming VP Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaking vote, would control the senate. This would give Democrats control of the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, a trifecta of federal power.

Georgia's election system must be accurate and airtight to ensure a fair and just election in that state, as not just Georgia, but the power balance of the country is at stake.