In the past week, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been attacked by many in Donald Trump’s camp including from the outgoing president himself. Turns out, it was simply because he was doing his job and refuse to cheat the system after the people of his state chose Joe Biden.
Raffensperger unloaded on Republicans in a new interview with The Washington Post. He told The Post that the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Lindsey Graham wanted him to throw out ballots that were cast legally in hopes of flipping the state back to Trump after Biden’s victory.
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From The Post:
In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state’s signature-matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with nonmatching signatures, according to Raffensperger. Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures, Raffensperger said.
Raffspenger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. Absent court intervention, Raffensperger doesn’t have the power to do what Graham suggested, as counties administer elections in Georgia.
“It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,” he said.
Sen. Graham’s office responded to the Post with letters from Republicans in Georgia raising their concerns and a tweet from Doug Collins who Raffensperger called a “failed candidate” and a “liar” after Collins kept attacking him.
Graham later responded to the very serious accusation in a statement, writing: “That’s ridiculous… What I’m trying to find out was how do you verify signatures for mail in ballots in these states… I thought it was a good conversation, I’m surprised to hear him characterize it that way.”
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