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Experiencing tornados across the country. from california to illinois, here in georgia we ve had three days where we ve reported tornados including here yesterday. now in spaulding county, there were four middle schools that sheltered in place during this tragedy that swept through here during the afternoon and evening hours. the students had to stay within their schools until the authorities deemed it safe enough for the buses to ship they are home. so that occurred after midnight last night. it has been quite a scene here to see to say the least. and nonetheless, a very, very difficult start to the tornado season. again with 100 tornados already reported across the country so far. this is one of the many that have occurred. jim, erica. it is just devastated. derek, ryan, appreciate it. thank you both. still ahead here, an update for you just outside the ukraine town of soledar and they deny ....
Million to fundraising ahead of the critical mid-term elections. this would bring the total number of funds of dnc funds to $27 million. a record for the democratic party. georgia is soaring to new heights. the secretary of state reports 1 million ballots have been cast. at this point in the mid-term elections that number was around 590,000. a small number of ballots may have been lost when a mail truck caught fire in baker county on tuesday and election officials are investigating a fake ballot detected last week in spaulding county. the battleground states in arizona and nevada. they will begin hand counting mail-in ballots this week. one in arizona, two in the cochese county. there will be a hand count audit ....
Arizona has referred a case of voter intimidation in maricopa county. they were accused of being mules or someone who stuffs ballot boxes. they re taking pictures of them and regardless of what the intent is of these people who are taking pictures of our elections workers, they re harassing people. they re not helping, you know, further the interests of democracy. the complaint comes in a state that never stopped chasing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. candidates for governor, senate and other offices have backed donald trump s lies that that election was stolen. cnn has learned that election deniers are in charge of county election offices in key battleground states and are continuing to sew seeds of ....
as for ben johnston and what he has to say about all of this, in a word, nothing. he s refused to answer questions. in an email accused cnn of being on a witch hunt. we went to the spaulding county offices we were told on the phone that he was in a meeting. when we tried talking to him hey, is ben johnson in. he s not. are you sure? spaulding county under the leadership of an election denier this week. now we re learning they believe someone has already tried to discredit the results of this election and it s happening in spaulding county georgia. a fake ballot was found inside a locked ballot box. an investigation is underway and the secretary of state s office has put clerks on alert to look out for any possible damage to the integrity of elections. ....
Which also affect the entire state. it s a scary situation. reporter: he has posted about qanon more than a dozen times including this supportive tweet. hate to say it, but a hell of a lot of information posted by q is accurate. red, white, and keep in mind as chair of the election board johnson is in charge of the county s certification board. johnson always acts professionally but the community has concerns where they could potentially impact the outcome of the election. reporter: now cnn has learned the fulton county district attorney plans to subpoena ben johnson and two other officials looking into the 2020 ....