GA Sec of State Orders Signature Audit After Pressure from Trump

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the state will conduct a review on absentee ballots after weeks of pressure from the President. The decison comes days after his office approved an intital signature review in Cobb County. The signature matching review is meant to help calm any remaining questions or concerns regarding voter fraud allegations in the Peach State. President Trump has been pushing for a signute audit in the state for weeks.

Senate Judicary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham tweeted, “Glad to see signature audit beginning in Georgia for mail-in votes. However, many believe Fulton and Clayton counties are the most suspect, not Cobb. Hopefully they will be included.”

In a statement from Raffensperger’s office,“We are confident that elections in Georgia are secure, reliable, and effective,” said Raffensperger. “Despite endless lawsuits and wild allegations from Washington, D.C. pundits, we have seen no actual evidence of widespread voter fraud, though we are investigating all credible reports. Nonetheless, we look forward to working with the University of Georgia on this signature match review to further instill confidence in Georgia’s voting systems.”

The Daily Wire reports:

Raffensperger announced on Monday that the state would be reviewing signatures in Cobb County due to a complaint specific to the county. While the complaint referred to Cobb County election officials’ conduct during the primary election, the review will cover ballots sent in the primary and in the general election.

President Trump has consistently called for a signature audit of Georgia’s votes sent by mail, hammering the state’s Republican governor and secretary of state. The state has already conducted two statewide recounts, finding a number of mistakes totaling thousands of votes, but not enough to flip the state from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to Trump, who trails by about 12,000 votes.

On Dec. 3, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp reasserted his calls for a signature audit, though the decision is ultimately left up to the secretary of state.

“You know, I’ve called early on for a signature audit, obviously the secretary of state, per the laws and the Constitution would have to order that; he has not done that,” Kemp said in an interview on Fox News. “I think it should be done. I think, especially with what we saw today, it raises more questions. There needs to be transparency on that. I would again call for that, and I think in the next 24 hours hopefully we’ll see a lot more from the hearings that the legislature had today and we’ll be able to look and see what the next steps are.”

Georgia is embroiled in a tight run-off race for its two Senate seats. Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are fighting to defend the seats from Democrat challengers Job Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Republican need to win one of the two races to maintain control of the upper chamber while Democrats must sweep the election to gain control.



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