brassplyer
Well-known member
I'm sure you've heard the story about flooding at State Farm Arena that delayed vote counting. There's something very fishy about the whole thing.
Originally you heard it widely reported as a "burst pipe" - this eventually got changed to "an overflowing urinal". There *is* video of the flooded rooms available. You can see it here - the water is obviously coming from above:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230221005532/http://securevotega.com/fact-check/
What I bet you *haven't* seen is a photo of the actual leak source or repairs being done.
Per Gabriel Sterling, the voting implementation manager for Georgia:
"Let's be clear, there was no water main break. There was a urinal that they turn off during the downtime at State Farm [Arena in Atlanta] because there's no events going on there. And it had a little slow leak that came over the side."
www.newsweek.com
There are multiple problems with that story. For there to be a "leak" that means that both the shutoff valve on the urinal *and* the main flush valve - the one that you use when you pull the handle to flush a urinal - had to fail, and the flush valve wasn't being used at that time. Further, even if there *was* a "slow leak" it wouldn't flow over the side of the bowl of the urinal - it would go down the drain - *unless* the drain was clogged. Why would the drain be clogged? According to Sterling this was a urinal that wasn't being used and would have been observed when whatever maintenance person shut off the valves for the urinals.
At the bottom see a diagram of just one level at State Farm Arena - see how many men's restrooms there are? Again - that's just one level.
So here's what we're asked to believe. Out of the numerous men's rooms on different levels of State Farm Arena this one urinal that had been turned off some days or weeks prior had *two* rarely failing valves spontaneously and simultaneously fail, which caused an overflow that shouldn't happen in the first place and this just happened to be during a period and spot in the arena where it would cause a problem where vote counting was taking place. This wasn't discovered until just before 5:30 AM, which means this supposed spontaneous "small leak" under unlikely circumstances that supposedly caused an overflow under unlikely circumstances began much earlier than that.
The story doesn't hold water.
Did someone deliberately clog the drain, sabotage the valves and cause a flood? Are there no floor drains in that bathroom that would prevent this?
Originally you heard it widely reported as a "burst pipe" - this eventually got changed to "an overflowing urinal". There *is* video of the flooded rooms available. You can see it here - the water is obviously coming from above:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230221005532/http://securevotega.com/fact-check/
What I bet you *haven't* seen is a photo of the actual leak source or repairs being done.
Per Gabriel Sterling, the voting implementation manager for Georgia:
"Let's be clear, there was no water main break. There was a urinal that they turn off during the downtime at State Farm [Arena in Atlanta] because there's no events going on there. And it had a little slow leak that came over the side."
Fact Check: Did Fabricated Water Main Break Affect Vote Count in Georgia?
In a leaked recorded phone call made on Saturday, President Donald Trump can be heard attempting to convince Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, to find enough votes to ensure that Georgia went to Trump.
www.newsweek.com
There are multiple problems with that story. For there to be a "leak" that means that both the shutoff valve on the urinal *and* the main flush valve - the one that you use when you pull the handle to flush a urinal - had to fail, and the flush valve wasn't being used at that time. Further, even if there *was* a "slow leak" it wouldn't flow over the side of the bowl of the urinal - it would go down the drain - *unless* the drain was clogged. Why would the drain be clogged? According to Sterling this was a urinal that wasn't being used and would have been observed when whatever maintenance person shut off the valves for the urinals.
At the bottom see a diagram of just one level at State Farm Arena - see how many men's restrooms there are? Again - that's just one level.
So here's what we're asked to believe. Out of the numerous men's rooms on different levels of State Farm Arena this one urinal that had been turned off some days or weeks prior had *two* rarely failing valves spontaneously and simultaneously fail, which caused an overflow that shouldn't happen in the first place and this just happened to be during a period and spot in the arena where it would cause a problem where vote counting was taking place. This wasn't discovered until just before 5:30 AM, which means this supposed spontaneous "small leak" under unlikely circumstances that supposedly caused an overflow under unlikely circumstances began much earlier than that.
The story doesn't hold water.
Did someone deliberately clog the drain, sabotage the valves and cause a flood? Are there no floor drains in that bathroom that would prevent this?
