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Georgia Legislature Should Convene And Ban Mail-In Voting For Runoff Elections
The Federalist ^ | November 9, 2020 | Jordan Davidson

Posted on 11/09/2020 10:10:40 AM PST by Kaslin

Georgia Republican officials should ban the use of mail-in ballots in the runoff election through a special convention in their state legislature.


Americans were denied the privilege of knowing who won the election on the same day that many voted due to a combination of delayed mail-in ballots, voter fraud, and other election violations popping up all around the country. While we await pending litigation in many key states, state legislators in Georgia have a unique opportunity to step in and assure swift and fair practices in critical runoff elections.

All eyes turn to the Georgia Senate seats where two Republican incumbents and their challengers will face off in January to decide if the GOP’s majority in the Senate will prevail.

The Senate Is At Stake

Democrats are quickly pouring more money and resources into the Peach State with the hopes that they could possibly unseat two Republican Senators and take control of the Senate.

Just days after the runoff elections became imminent and hours after the media projected former vice president Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the Democrats’ intentions to reclaim the Senate by focusing on Georgia.

“Now we take Georgia, then we change the world,” Schumer said. “Now we take Georgia, then we change America.”

If successful in replacing both Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Democrats will likely spend the next two years weaponizing the Senate to defund the police, pass the Green New Deal, raise taxes on working Americans, undo coronavirus economic recovery plans, strip protections for unborn babies, and other insane policies that at least half of the country disagrees with.

The risk posed by this threat against Perdue and Loeffler is high and, as I wrote in a previous piece, must be addressed by conservative leaders.

Georgia is ripe with Republican officials, who hold the state government in a GOP trifecta, with the ability to mitigate this risk by banning the use of mail-in ballots in the runoff election through a special convention in their state legislature.

Georgia’s Republican-controlled legislative body and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp not only have the ability to call a special session to discuss and pass legislation to address the issue, but also maintain a veto-proof supermajority in both the state House and state Senate if all of the GOP members vote to mandate only in-person voting for the runoff election.

Directing Georgians to vote in person for the runoff election will ensure that the results can be tallied in a timely and accurate way and prevent the administrative mistakes and fraud susceptibility that comes with mail-in ballots.

In-Person Voting Ensures Faster, More Accurate Results

Mail-in balloting was necessary for the Nov. 3 election, some argued, because of the pandemic. These fears peddled by the left and the media that millions of Americans might be risking contracting if they voted at the polls, however, were completely canceled out by multiple celebrations in city streets all around the nation on Saturday after the media called the presidential race for Biden.

While some wore masks, there was no social distancing and, counter to what many Democrat leaders have claimed about activities such as screaming or singing spreading droplets at a higher rate, thousands of people crowded together and shouted their love for Biden and his vice president nominee Kamala Harris for hours.

Now that many are acting as if pandemic is over, Georgians shouldn’t have a problem heading to a poll to cast their vote in-person, especially if it means the election results in such a close race will be projected accurately on the night of election day.

Banning mail-in balloting for the January runoff election will also ensure that voter fraud and other election violations will be limited and monitored more closely.

Election officials in Georgia have already publicly declared that, while there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, there are individual cases of fraud in the state which can be decisive in a state with a razor-thin margin of votes between candidates.

The Trump Campaign, in conjunction with the Georgia Republican Party, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the Chatham County Board of Elections demanding that they “enforce Georgia election laws, secure lawful absentee ballots, and prevent the unlawful counting of ballots received after the election” after the organization’s Chairman David Shafer tweeted that workers in Fulton County prevented Republican poll observers from monitoring voting tabulation and ballot counting.

In Chatham, home to the city of Savannah, Shafer reported that observers “watched an unidentified woman mix over 50 ballots into a stack of uncounted absentee ballots” as well.

These kinds of preventable barriers stop oversight to ensure accurate vote tallying which, in this case, puts the GOP at major risk to lose the Senate.

If the GOP state government in Georgia will take the actions necessary to clean up part of the United States’ election and promise that every legitimate vote cast in-person at a polling station is counted, our constitutional republic will be safer, secure, and more accurate.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidperdue; demonrats; georgia; kellyloeffler; mailinballots; republicans; runoff; senatevoting

1 posted on 11/09/2020 10:10:40 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If we made voter fraud a capital crime, we’d have a freaking lot less of it.


2 posted on 11/09/2020 10:12:34 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Kaslin

All of these Republican held state houses (GA, PA, MI, WI, NV and AZ) need to grow some balls and preserve the will of their voters, who were disenfranchised by a racketeering scheme to nullify their will.

If I lived in one of these states, its time to lock and load.


3 posted on 11/09/2020 10:18:38 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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To: Kaslin

Can someone confirm that people can move into GA one week before election and then vote in run off election. Is it true?


4 posted on 11/09/2020 10:19:18 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: Kaslin

Important link and info on voters moving to GA for senate runoff races:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3903425/posts?page=422#422


5 posted on 11/09/2020 10:19:32 AM PST by LilFarmer
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To: Kaslin

Mail-in voting should be banned for the entire nation.


6 posted on 11/09/2020 10:23:17 AM PST by Signalman
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To: mewzilla

Absolutely


7 posted on 11/09/2020 10:28:22 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

But they won’t.


8 posted on 11/09/2020 10:30:12 AM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: Signalman
Mail-in voting should be banned for the entire nation.

Ain't THAT the truth!

9 posted on 11/09/2020 10:30:46 AM PST by timestax
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To: LoveMyFreedom

How should I know? I live in Middle Tennessee, 5 miles from the KY Border


10 posted on 11/09/2020 10:32:57 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: LilFarmer

Gov Kemp needs to declare a Covid emergency and ban people from moving to GA for one month to pre-empt the left’s temporary mass migration. The legislature needs to firm up voting rules, especially on mail voting.


11 posted on 11/09/2020 10:40:03 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Dewey eyed Joe lost)
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To: Kaslin

I was just asking if someone one the thread knew if that was true. That’s all since I live in NY


12 posted on 11/09/2020 10:59:12 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: LoveMyFreedom
Here is what sec. (10) of the Georgia Code Title 21. Elections § 21-2-501 says: (10) The run-off primary, special primary runoff, run-off election, or special election runoff shall be a continuation of the primary, special primary, election, or special election for the particular office concerned.  Only the electors who were duly registered to vote and not subsequently deemed disqualified to vote in the primary, special primary, election, or special election for candidates for that particular office shall be entitled to vote therein, and only those votes cast for the persons designated as candidates in such run-off primary, special primary runoff, run-off election, or special election runoff shall be counted in the tabulation and canvass of the votes cast.  No elector shall vote in a run-off primary or special primary runoff in violation of Code Section 21-2-224 .
13 posted on 11/09/2020 11:05:07 AM PST by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

30 days ahead of an election in GA is the end of registering to vote in that election.


14 posted on 11/09/2020 11:24:03 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53

Thank you


15 posted on 11/09/2020 12:05:59 PM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: Kaslin

They need to. or its over


16 posted on 11/09/2020 2:53:26 PM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: Kaslin

Delusional

Mail in voting is going to be a fact of life going forward.

We need to adapt or die.


17 posted on 12/14/2020 1:01:06 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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