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Mon Nov 16, 2020, 12:41 PM Nov 2020

Georgia elections chief fires back at Trump over claims about recount process

Source: The Hill

Georgia’s Republican secretary of state is pushing back on several false claims by President Trump about the state’s recount process and election integrity.

In a series of Facebook posts, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) first addressed the president’s claims that election officials were not allowing Trump campaign observers into counting rooms.

“The state of Georgia placed the responsibility of recruitment of monitors solely on both parties. Don’t have credentials? Call your state party and demand monitor credentials,” Raffensperger wrote on Facebook. “Find them horribly disorganized? Show up to their office and demand credentials.

In follow-up posts, Raffensperger clarified that the Dominion voting system, the subject of numerous conspiracy theories advanced by the president, is American-owned rather than Venezuelan and that the practice of ballot harvesting is illegal in Georgia.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/526116-georgia-elections-chief-fires-back-at-trump-over-claims-about-recount

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