Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended the 2020 election just as much as his opponents attacked it during an Atlanta Press Club primary debate Monday.
Raffensperger faces three challengers, including Trump-backed U.S. Rep. Jody Hice, after Georgia's election results and administration because the center of controversies and conspiracies after the former president lost the election.
The mild-mannered engineer faced pressure from former President Donald Trump to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat in Georgia in an infamous call that has helped lead to a special grand jury investigation into election interference in Fulton County, where jury selection was underway as the candidates took the stage.
Hice, former Alpharetta mayor David Belle Isle and former Treutlen County probate judge TJ Hudson spent much of the debate making false claims about so-called "ballot harvesting" in absentee drop boxes, claiming Georgia's election system is insecure and that they would not have certified the 2020 election results, which were counted three separate times — including once by hand.
"The last election should not have been certified without proper investigation," Hice said. "They were all over the place and they still are."
Raffensperger responded later in the debate that Hice was lying about Georgia voting procedures and that his office investigated every claim and found nothing to support most of them.
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