Washington (CNN)At a Monday debate between the Republican candidates for Georgia secretary of state, incumbent Brad Raffensperger said his leading opponent, US Rep. Jody Hice, "has just not been honest for the last 18 months, and he has been spreading misinformation, disinformation."
Hice, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has centered his campaign on false claims about the 2020 election -- including the claim that Trump would have won Georgia if the election had been "fair." And Hice has repeatedly made false claims about Raffensperger's actions as Georgia's elections chief.
Here is a fact check of some of the things Hice said at the Monday debate. Hice's campaign didn't respond to a CNN request for comment.
Hice said to Raffensperger: "You created ballot harvesting in Georgia." He repeated later: "Ballot harvesting was created, in the state of Georgia, because of Brad Raffensperger."
Facts First: Hice's claim is false. Raffensperger did not create ballot harvesting in Georgia. In fact, less than three months after Raffensperger became secretary of state in 2019, Gov. Brian Kemp signed a law that outlawed ballot harvesting in Georgia.
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