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Voters cast their votes in the Georgia Senate runoff elections at a Fulton County polling station in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on January 5, 2021. REUTERS / Elijah Nouvelage
Georgia officials overseeing the state Senate elections Tuesday responded to a tweet from President Donald Trump that stoked fears about voting machines and said that despite an early problem in one county, the elections were proceeding without problems.
On Tuesday afternoon, Trump tweeted that “reports are coming in from Georgia’s 12th Congressional District that Dominion Machines is not operating in certain Republican Strongholds for more than an hour. The ballots are left in closed boxes, I hope they count them ”. The tweet was retweeted more than 45,000 times.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office responded in a statement that while some issues were reported, they did not stop voting and were resolved at 10 a.m.
“At no point was voting stopped as voters continued to cast emergency ballots, in accordance with procedures established by Georgia law,” he said.
Gabriel Sterling, manager of Georgia’s voting systems, said on Twitter that there was a programming error in the security keys, but it was quickly resolved, adding, “I’m sorry you received prior information, Mr. President.”
Claims have proliferated on social media platforms, including Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc, linking Dominion to an alleged fraud in the Nov.3 presidential election that Trump, a Republican, lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Reuters and other media outlets have debunked the claims, which have not been backed up with evidence. Dominion machines were used in 24 of the 50 US states in November, including the states where Trump won.
A Dominion spokeswoman said Tuesday that the company would file an “imminent” lawsuit against attorney Sidney Powell over allegations about voting machines and that the company was keeping all options open for further litigation.
Trump’s claim that his loss in November was the result of widespread election fraud has been widely rejected by state and federal election officials and multiple courts.
Officials in his own administration have described the vote as “the safest in American history.”
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