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And if you continue the colloquy you'll see the problem is the observers in the room were not allowed within several tens of feet of the ballots being counted,

• aw1621107 6y ago
  > And if you continue the colloquy you'll see the problem is the observers in the room were not allowed within several tens of feet of the ballots being counted, this making observation impossible. So assuming the motion linked at the top of the Twitter thread is the one the hearing is about, what you say does not appear to be completely correct. The complaint in the original motion is that the County Board of Elections is "intentionally refusing to allow any representatives and poll watchers for President Trump and the Republican Party," and that "It has been studying the Order [to allow representatives/poll watchers to observe canvassing] for over an hour and a half, while counting continues with no Republicans present." Assuming the Twitter thread is correct, the bits of the conversation I quoted show that the problems in the original motion do not, in fact, exist (as of the time of the hearing, at least), and that observation distance was a separate issue brought up during the hearing. > Hence why the judge ruled to allow observers closer. This is actually a ruling from a different case (emphasis mine): > Earlier on Thursday, a Pennsylvania state court judge ruled that observers could stand as close as 6 feet (2 meters) away while election officials counted mail-in and absentee ballots. The case the article/Twitter thread I linked was in a US District Court.