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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
“Zero evidence. Zero.”
Georgia election official gives Trump the lie
Donald Trump continues to stiffly say that there was massive fraud in the presidential election. His friends at the party also disagree. Georgia’s election official gasps as he goes over the long list of accusations.
Shortly before the decisive second round of the elections for two US Senate seats in Georgia, state officials have again rejected Donald Trump’s claims of alleged electoral fraud. The outgoing president’s accusations “have proven to be false,” said Gabriel Sterling, one of Georgia’s election officials. “We have one claim after another with no evidence. Zero.”
Sterling, himself a Republican, urged voters to cast their votes in the second round of Tuesday’s election, even if Trump undermined belief in the system with his baseless accusations. The second round elections will decide whether Trump’s Republicans or future President Joe Biden’s Democrats will have a majority in the Senate. A majority would give Biden more freedom to shape his policy: the Senate confirms members of the government, among other things.
Sterling denied multiple allegations in a row from Trump’s camp in a press conference. No votes for president were assigned to Biden in the November 3 election, ballot papers were not subsequently destroyed and no citizens voted despite the missed registration deadline. No errors were found when comparing signatures on postal voting documents. “It’s a long list,” Sterling complained, now out of breath.
On Sunday, a recording of a telephone conversation between the president and Sterling boss Brad Raffensperger was released in which Trump blatantly asked for 11,780 votes to be found for him to win the state. Later, Democrats launched an investigation into Trump on suspicion of attempted voter fraud. Raffensperger said in a television interview that he released the recording after Trump misrepresented the content of the conversation on Twitter.
