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发帖数: 8358 | 1 Georgia鈥檚 secretary of state says Lindsey Graham suggested he throw out
legal ballots
Georgia鈥檚 secretary of state Brad Raffensperger has said that Senator
Lindsey Graham asked whether it was possible to invalidate legally cast
ballots after Donald Trump was narrowly defeated in the state.
In聽an interview with the Washington Post, Raffensperger said that his
fellow Republican, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee,
questioned him about the state鈥檚 signature-matching law and asked whether
political bias might have played a role in counties where poll workers
accepted higher rates of mismatched signatures. According to Raffensperger,
Graham then asked whether he had the authority to toss out all mail-in
ballots in these counties.
Raffensperger was reportedly 鈥渟tunned鈥by the question, in which Graham
appeared to suggest that he find a way to throw out legally cast absentee
ballots.
鈥淚t sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,鈥he said.
Graham confirmed the conversation to reporters on Capitol Hill but said it
was 鈥渞idiculous鈥to suggest that he pressured Raffensperger to throw out
legally cast absentee ballots. According to Graham, he only wanted to learn
more about the process for verifying signatures, because what happens in
Georgia 鈥渁ffects the whole nation鈥
鈥淚 thought it was a good conversation,鈥Graham said on Monday after the
interview was published. 鈥淚鈥檓 surprised to hear he characterized it that
way.鈥br />
Trump has refused to accept results showing Joe Biden as the winner of the
2020 presidential election, falsely blaming rampant fraud and irregularities
that election officials in both parties have dismissed as meritless.
Georgia's secretary of state announces election vote recount 鈥video
Georgia, a reliably Republican state with 16 electoral votes, is currently
conducting a hand recount of roughly 5m presidential ballots, which is
expected to be completed by 20 November. Biden led in the state by about 14,
000 votes after the initial tally.
This comes as Raffensperger faces mounting backlash from his own party after
defending the state鈥檚 electoral process. The state鈥檚 two Republican
senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both locked in tight run-off
elections to keep their seats, have called for Raffensperger鈥檚 resignation
鈥calls that Raffensperger has dismissed.
Congressman Doug Collins of Georgia, who is spearheading the president鈥檚
effort to prove fraud in the state, has also been critical of Raffensperger,
accusing him of siding with Democrats because he refused to endorse the
false claim that the election was stolen from Trump. In the interview,
Raffensperger called Collins, who has not contested the result of the
special election race he lost to Loeffler, a 鈥渓iar鈥and a 鈥渃harlatan鈥
Raffensperger said every accusation of voter fraud would be thoroughly
vetted but there was currently no credible evidence that wrongdoing had
occurred on a large enough scale to affect the outcome of the election. He
also told the Post that the recount would 鈥渁ffirm鈥the results of the
initial count and prove the accuracy of the Dominion voting machines, which
Trump has falsely claimed deleted votes cast for him. |
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