Posted on 01/04/2023 2:48:26 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to conduct a signature audit of the state's 2020 election results Thursday, calling some of the testimony to come out during that day's state Senate Oversight Committee hearing "concerning."
While it is unclear to what degree a signature audit can still be conducted in the state since mail-in ballots are separated from their signed envelopes before they are counted, the call matches what President Donald Trump has been asking for since counting was completed earlier this month showing Democratic nominee Joe Biden edging the incumbent in the state by just under 13,000 votes.
"You know, I've called early on for a signature audit, obviously the secretary of state, per the laws and the Constitution would have to order that; he has not done that," Kemp told Fox News' Laura Ingraham. "I think it should be done. I think, especially with what we saw today, it raises more questions. There needs to be transparency on that. I would again call for that, and I think in the next 24 hours hopefully we'll see a lot more from the hearings that the legislature had today and we'll be able to look and see what the next steps are."
Later in the interview, after Ingraham played video from the hearing showing Democratic poll workers in Fulton County allegedly pulling cases of ballots from under a table to count them while Republican poll watchers were no longer present, Kemp said, "Certainly what [we saw] today was concerning."
"We need to get answers from the secretary of state about exactly what happened," he added. "Obviously, they should be investigating this, I imagine they already are."
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp calls for a signature audit of the state’s election results. https://t.co/af2QEvmc8g— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@(((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio) 1607056673.0
Kemp, a Trump supporter, has been under fire from the president this week. On Monday, Trump called the governor out on Twitter, asking, "Why won't Governor [Kemp], the hapless Governor of Georgia, use his emergency powers, which can be easily done, to overrule his obstinate Secretary of State, and do a match of signatures on envelopes[?]"
"It will be a 'goldmine' of fraud, and we will easily WIN the state," the president added. "Also, quickly check the number of envelopes versus the number of ballots. You may just find that there are many more ballots than there are envelopes. So simple, and so easy to do. Georgia Republicans are angry, all Republicans are angry. Get it done!"
After the tweet, Kemp's office quickly responded by clarifying that state law prohibits him from interfering in elections because "the Secretary of State, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order."
During the Thursday interview, Ingraham also pressed Kemp on what he may be able to do as governor to ensure election fraud does not occur during next month's Senate runoff elections between Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and their Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock.
Kemp said he was considering calling the state legislature back to session or facilitating changes through the court system, but did not commit to any action.
What ??
Dec 4, 2020 article?
Is that a polite way of saying, they lied out of their nether regions?
“Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger”
Raffensperger was the leader in the theft so If it actually happens it will be rigged to “prove the election was legit and that the deniers were completely wrong”
Not impressed in the least Gov. Brian Kemp, as you know that this is impossible to do now. It’s all for show. You are still going down you traitor.
Article is from 2 years ago, why post it now?
This is right up there with O.J. Simpson saying he would never rest until he found the ‘real killers.’
After the 2020 election, when Kemp (rightly) got called out on the sloppy election, Kemp tracked hard right on just about every issue. It’s the reason he got reelected.
Ossoff’s US senate seat comes up for election in 2026—the same year Kemp’s run as governor ends.
For those that don’t know, Ossoff is Georgia’s version of Beto O’Rourke. The village idiot that has been running for (and losing elections for) every office for years. The fact that the finally won something is as amazing as Beto ever winning anything in Texas.
In other words: Ossoff is very, very beatable, but not if the Democrats can game the system (cheat) to put him back in office.
Kemp has a very selfish reason for wanting to clean up voting in Georgia: he wants to be a US senator.
The did an audit. It was done in two counties where they knew the stuff was legit and called it.
On top of that, it was done by Raffensberger and his crew, so no one will ever know what was actually looked at.
The same Raffensberger that allowed Dekalb Cty to destroy their ballots about 2 or 3 months after the election, when they should have been held for 22 months.
And the same Raffensberger that allowed all the Fulton Cty ballots to be shredded, that were supposedly being stored in a secure location under the watchful eye of the Fulton Cty Sheriff’s Dept, before they were looked at.
I can hear it now..... “Yes sir Former President Trump you were robbed in 2020, we have the proof..... too bad it’s too late to do anything.... oh and sorry, better luck next time....”
Yes, before Trump endorsed Stacey Abrams.
The same Raffensberger whose office didn't want to talk to Ruby Freeman about vote fraud, when she wanted to talk to them about it.
This is dated December 2020. He was blustering and nothing came of it because someone apparently told him to stop such foolish talk. He immediately became convinced the 2020 election was “safe and secure”.
Georgia doesn’t have any election coming up. Laura is wrong
I thought this was out of place. And by now all the records have been destroyed since they could legally destroy them after 22 months. No way they are leaving that evidence lying around.
Yeh Kemp is all about transparency. 😆
Was this before or after his daughter’s boyfriend wentup in a ball of flame?
“Was this before or after his daughter’s boyfriend wentup in a ball of flame?”
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His change of mind came almost immediately afterwards the amazing explosion.
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