Posted on 11/17/2020 7:10:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In an interview with The Washington Post, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger claimed Sen. Lindsey Graham, and other Republicans, suggested he find ways to exclude legally cast ballots, which the South Carolina senator denies.
Raffensperger, a Republican, told the Post he was under pressure from within his own party during the recount to bring about a more favorable outcome for President Trump in the state, which Joe Biden narrowly won with roughly 14,000 votes.
In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state’s signature-matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots with nonmatching signatures, according to Raffensperger. Graham also asked whether Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of nonmatching signatures, Raffensperger said.
Raffensperger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. Absent court intervention, Raffensperger doesn’t have the power to do what Graham suggested because counties administer elections in Georgia.
“It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,” Raffensperger said. (WaPo)
In an interview with reporters, Graham called Raffensperger’s allegation that he suggested tossing legal ballots “ridiculous.”
“The main issue for me is: How do you protect the integrity of mail-in voting, and how does signature verification work?” the senator explained.
“If he feels threatened by that conversation, he’s got a problem,” Graham said. “I actually thought it was a good conversation.”
Graham’s call to Raffensperger came the same day attorney Lin Wood filed a lawsuit in the state that “seeks to block certification of Georgia’s election until all ballot envelopes are inspected,” according to the Post. But the secretary of state said he plans to fight the lawsuit because it would jeopardize the secrecy of the vote, he said.
Wood has claimed corruption at the highest levels in Georgia and said "it will not stand."
The Georgia Governor & Secretary of State are corrupt. There was rampant voting fraud in GA depriving President Trump of a landslide win.
It will not stand. Trump won.https://t.co/jBCGTOu25Z— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) November 17, 2020
It’s obvious that the only reason Raffensperger calls himself a “Republican” is so that when he steals an election for the Democrats he can present his Republican bonafides, thus deflecting attacks.
Almost like Mueller calling himself a Republican.
Or at his level of incompetence. If he realizes how he has screwed up the situation royally in Georgia through incompetence, he will try to blame everyone else. On the other hand, corruption may be more likely. He had to know the agreement he signed with the Democrats change election law and that it was invalid.
Just saw this.....FWIW.....
A high ranking military whistleblower has reportedly come forward voicing their concerns about ballot counting software used on Election Day. Newsmax TV’s @EmeraldRobinson reports. https://t.co/6psrdum0kI pic.twitter.com/EaobUlPNBA— Newsmax (@newsmax) November 17, 2020
I heard this interview yesterday - it was EXCELLENT!
Everyone should listen to it... it is PACKED with information and explanation that answers many questions people are posting
Thanks for that link.
Lin Wood has been ON IT!!
His Howie Carr interview was great, and I look forward to listening to this Fredericks interview, too.
Indeed.
I am reposting this background information for anyone who may have missed it:
Despite promising a recanvass and audit, it turns out that GA only did a recount of fraudulent ballots, and no verification of signatures on absentee ballots (see the lawsuit below)
There apparently has been no real way to monitor as there were only 1 GOP monitor per 10 tables, which Collins and Shafer objected to https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1327317763908640768?s=20.
Here is a video posted by the GA GOP chairman showing the room and what one monitor would have to observe: https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1327298145085218817?s=20
I believe they could have added as many ballots as they needed to match the dominion numbers. Since GOP observers in Fulton County were sent home at 10:30 while they continued counting in secret, we will never know https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1325960023902711813?s=20. I do know that between midnight and about 2 pm, Trump’s s lead dropped from +6 to +2.5
Here is a video from another monitor in Fulton County, showing a stack of 3456 ballots - 3331 for Biden and only 105 for Trump. That is 96% of the ballots for Biden, in a county that Hillary only got 68% in 2016 and Obama got 64% in 2012 and 67% in 2008. https://twitter.com/talkmullins/status/1327773439843852289?s=21
In case you missed it earlier. I have mentioned our SOS is the one who both purchased Dominion systems and put it in every county in GA, despite concerns and even lawsuits over the security of the software. https://www.americanoversight.org/investigation/georgias-voting-machines-and-election-security
He has been saying from day one there is no credible fraud and the counts are accurate, but I know for a fact there was fraud, I know people who experienced here, and the SOS either ignored them or gave them the runaround.
His illegal lawsuit settlement deal in March 2020, is the reason there are no real signature matching in the original count: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fr5xg2jdyimrqa6/SETTLEMENT—GA.pdf?dl=0
Possibly as a result of this deal, the percentage of absentee ballot rejections went from 3.5% rejected for signature mismatches or other reasons in 2018 to 0.3% in 2020 https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1327082529757782016?s=20
However, the fact is, the SOS making this deal with the Democrats which changed election law was illegal because he did not go through GA legislature. For that reason L. Lin Wood filed this lawsuit:
L. Lin Wood
4:27, 11/13/20
I filed a lawsuit today in federal court in Atlanta to establish that the March 6, 2020 Consent Agreement by the GA Secretary of State rendered UNLAWFUL the 11/3 GA general election.
I am right under established law.
https://twitter.com/llinwood/status/1327362579472277505?s=21
Link to lawsuit
I do not know Kemp’s role in all this, besides his ex chief of staff, Jared Thomas is a dominion lobbyist. I do know that he has been completely silent on all this and is ignoring pleas by thousands of Georgians to call a special session of GA Legislature. His silence is very suspicious.
Finally as far as absentee ballots goes, Stacy Abrams has lead all of that with ballot harvesting and leading the effort to cure (fix) absentee ballots after the deadline, which was also agreed to in the SOS settlement deal.
He’s either bribed or blackmailed, or both.
You overlooked incompetent (Peter Principle).
L Lin Wood just posted this:
Late this afternoon, I filed an Amended Complaint against GA Secretary of State @GaSecofState, et al. Due process issues are now also raised. The recount is a sham. Tomorrow, I will move for an emergency TRO.
@BrianKempGA better come out of his basement.
https://twitter.com/llinwood/status/1328512541908201472?s=21
Link to amended lawsuit:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yam5mxlrkn9r3o5/2020-11-16%20Verified%20Amended%20Complaint_Wood%20v.%20Raffensperger%20et%20al.pdf?dl=0
If he wanted secrecy then he shouldn’t have screwed up the mail in ballots validation.
Post 27- timely summary - thanks
DIRTY AS HELL!
Yep. That’s what I think. The folks that are controlling him are threatening to expose him big-time. He is more afraid of them than of risking his reputation and possibly breaking the law. Wouldn’t you love to know what they have on him.....
Kemp seems dirty also.
You are probably right - Sidney retweeted Lin Wood:
Lin Wood
@LLinWood
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19h
I strongly believe the taxpayers of Georgia have a right to know whether any of this $106M was paid as kickbacks to family members of @BrianKempGA
& @GaSecofState.
After all, it is the taxpayers’ money.
#FightBack Against Corruption.
Definitely.
We need to be digging for these connections... There are people here and on other conservative sites who are very good at this. Let’s get on it!
And I voted for him!Yeeesshh!
Raffensberger is the one who contracted with Dominion allegedly after payoffs through his family. Don’t expect him
any time soon to look into their fraud.
Everything counted after the “water main break” is invalid because observers were not present. Once the integrity of the ballots comes into question due to misconduct of the election officials, those votes cannot be counted.
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