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The highest electoral authority in the US state of Georgia denounced pressure from colleagues in the Republican Party to revoke the votes that gave Democrat Joe Biden a presidential victory.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Brad Raffensperger, designated by outgoing President Donald Trump and several party members as responsible for an alleged fraud, also said he received death threats.
“In addition to irritating him, it is also very disappointing, especially when it comes to people from my party,” he stressed.
Biden won Georgia for the first time for Democrats since former President Bill Clinton in 1992, a fact that Trump has yet to acknowledge.
Raffensperger thus became the target of Trump, but also of some senators, deputies and Republican activists, for holding him responsible for the defeat for allowing an alleged fraud, of which no one has presented evidence.
Georgia’s two Republican senators, who have a runoff in January, have already called for Raffensperger’s resignation.
According to the same official, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Trump’s biggest allies in the Senate, went too far in calling him Friday to question the authority to invalidate votes.
Graham, for his part, denied and considered the accusation “ridiculous.”
Republicans are targeting postal votes, which in 2020 soared due to the covid-19 pandemic.
In Georgia, there is a law that analyzes, in several stages, whether the vote signatures in the mail match those the state recorded in the database, but Trump and his allies have falsely claimed that this does not allow verification.
Raffensperger has defended the effectiveness of the rule and also the accuracy of the interim results, while the manual count he ordered proceeds, with no irregularities found.
The official regretted that his party colleagues doubted the system, saying that he could demobilize the Republican base for the second round in January to the two Senate seats, and that he can guarantee the Republican majority in that body.
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