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The former Republican stronghold has just fallen into the hands of Joe Biden. Trump doesn’t want to leave it that way. And instigate a guerrilla war with the main electoral supervisor. Republican.
Brad Raffensperger, a Republican and Georgia’s top election supervisor, is unpopular with supporters of his party these days.
Republican Brad Raffensperger is more of a balancing act. Which these days is apparently an absolutely vital quality. As Secretary of State, he is the elected supervisor of elections for the state of Georgia. The race there was closed. Joe Biden leads after the first recount with just 14,000 votes against incumbent Donald Trump. That’s why the roughly five million votes are counted again by hand. The result should be available on Friday. So far there is no indication that anything is going to change in the result. Biden wins Georgia and an additional 16 votes for Electoral College.
In a normal presidential election, that would be the end of the story. Especially since Biden already won the election even without Georgia. But this is an election with the participation of Donald Trump. And he and his supporters are apparently not entirely satisfied with the outcome in the former Republican stronghold of Georgia.
Problematic relationship between Republicans
What strange consequences this has, Raffensperger revealed to the Washington Post on Monday. He received threats, especially from Republicans. A message to him read, “You shouldn’t mess up this count. Your life depends on that. “Trump repeatedly casts doubts on the legality of the count on Twitter without any basis. He calls them” false “because allegedly his people are not allowed to verify the signatures of postal voters. In a tweet, he calls Raffensperger a” supposed Republican. “
With Republican Congressman Doug Collins, Trump sent a watchdog to Georgia. So far he has not been able to reverse Trump’s defeat. The relationship between Collins and Raffensperger is disrupted. Raffensperger calls Trump’s envoy a “liar” and a “charlatan.” Collins, in turn, maintains that Raffensperger is “incompetent.” He “capitulated” to the Democrats.
Anyone in Georgia who votes by mail must sign one of the envelopes required to do so. This is compared to the signature that is deposited with the authorities. This ensures that the vote comes from a person with the right to vote. But sometimes the signatures don’t match. Georgia voters can prove their identity later. Trump believes this is at least unconstitutional.
Raffensperger now reports that he has been asked to reject legal votes as well.
The Trump camp’s demand thus far has been: All legal votes must be counted. Raffensperger now reports that he has been asked to reject legal votes as well. He spoke to Trump loyalist Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on the phone last Friday. He asked if it was not in Raffensperger’s power to discard all vote-by-mail ballots in constituencies where there were an excessive number of signatures that could not be clearly assigned. When asked about it, Graham called the charge “ridiculous.”
An overwhelming majority of postal voters in Georgia also voted for Joe Biden. That is why Trump and his people apparently seek their salvation by having as many postal votes as possible declared invalid. On Friday, Trump’s Atlanta attorneys filed a lawsuit to postpone the election certification until all firms have matched.
Trump’s attempt to attack the Georgia election does not end with his criticism of signature handling. Now you also question the counting software.
Conspiracy tales about software companies
In Georgia, as in 27 other states, software from the Canadian company Dominion is used. So far, two irregularities have been documented in this election: In Michigan, a responsible person in one district did not install an update for the software. In Georgia, 2,600 votes were found on a memory card, which apparently were not transmitted.
For Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, this is evidence enough to spread insane conspiracy stories about the Dominion company. Dominion is in the hands of “radical leftists” with close contacts with Antifa, Venezuela and China, it said Sunday. The company denied the allegations.
Brad Raffensperger cautioned against attacking voting software now. They will soon be urgently needed when there are two second-round elections for Georgia’s two US Senate seats on January 5. “People could raise their arms and say, ‘Why vote?'” Raffensperger fears. Which is more likely to hurt Republican candidates.
