Cobb: Government shredding didn't include Elections Office

For the second time in a week, Cobb County Government is saying that shredding activities at one of its facilities didn’t involve ballots.

According to a message sent out Tuesday, nothing from the Cobb Elections Office was shredded at all in the latest allegations.

County spokesman Ross Cavitt said in a statement late Tuesday afternoon that a video was being posted on social media that:

“Purportedly shows a shredding company at the building housing the main office for Cobb Elections on Whitlock Avenue in Marietta. This building houses many other Cobb County governmental offices, and the document disposal company was at the building as part of a regularly-scheduled visit to the Cobb Tax Commissioner’s office. No items from Cobb Elections were involved.”

Cavitt didn’t say who posted the video, but it came from Lin Wood, a prominent Atlanta attorney who’s filed a lawsuit for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, charging voter fraud.

Susan Knox is on it again. The photos & video to follow were taken by her today. Cobb County Patriots need to DEMAND answers.
It is critically important to get the word to many – @realDonaldTrump WON the election by a landslide. Biden is a criminal. China is the ENEMY. pic.twitter.com/1I8f1faRrj
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) November 24, 2020

Democratic former vice president Joe Biden leads in Georgia by less than 13,000 votes as a machine recount of the presidential voting got underway Tuesday.

Cobb Elections workers were conducting that recount at Jim Miller Park, several miles away from the main office, as they did during a hand recount that was completed last week. All elections materials related to the second recount, including ballots, are being stored there.

On Friday, Wood posted on his Twitter account an allegation that election documents were possibly being destroyed in Cobb. County elections director Janine Eveler responded by saying that only documents that were “not relevant” to the election were shredded after the hand recount was done.

Wood posted a few more times Tuesday on his Twitter account, which has more than 592,000 followers. Knox is identified several times as a “Georgia Patriot,” but she responded to Wood to say that the videos were shot by someone else who wished to remain anonymous.

Knox is a business development executive based in East Cobb.

In another Tweet, Wood wrote that “Biden is a crook. Cabala Harris is a Communist Sympathizer. This was NEVER about an election. It is part of an attempt to take over control of our country. I would NEVER incite violence. I urge ALL to pray.”

Biden won more than 56 percent of the vote in Cobb County.

Wood also Tweeted Tuesday that Sidney Powell, an attorney dismissed by the Trump campaign over the weekend, will be filing an election lawsuit in Georgia Wednesday.