Senior election official denounces pressure to cancel Biden’s votes



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meIn an interview with The Washington Post, Brad Raffensperger, named by outgoing President Donald Trump and several party members as responsible for the alleged fraud, also said he had received death threats.

“Besides bothering you, it’s also very deceptive, especially when it comes to people from my party ”, he stressed.

Biden he won in Georgia for the first time for Democrats since former President Bill Clinton in 1992, a fact Trump has yet to acknowledge.

Raffensperger thus became the target of Trump, but also of some senators, deputies and activists Republicans, for holding him responsible for the defeat for allowing an alleged fraud, of which no one has provided evidence.

The two Republican senators from Georgia, who have janeiro to contest a second round, they have already asked for the resignation of Raffensperger.

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 pandemic gives COVID-19-19.

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 It has defended the effectiveness of the rule and also the veracity of the provisional results, while the ordered manual computation has advanced, with no irregularities being found.

The official regretted that his party colleagues doubted the system, claiming that it could demobilize the Republican base for the second round in janeiro for both seats in the Senate, and that can guarantee the Republican majority in that Organ.

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