He came to White County to speak about the many different programs his office runs for the people of Georgia, but there was no escaping the topic most people wanted to hear about: Georgia’s elections. Specifically, his handling of the 2020 presidential election and that infamous call with then President Donald Trump asking him to “find” 11,780 votes “because we won the state.”
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger didn’t disappoint. Georgia’s top election official spent a portion of his time Tuesday at the White County Rotary Club sharing details of his office’s investigations into allegations of election fraud. The gist of his remarks was they found none.
Through numerous audits and recounts over the last three years, Secretary Raffensperger said his office concluded that there was no election fraud on a large scale as some alleged.
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Raffensperger explained that in the 2020 presidential election, approximately 28,000 Georgia voters “skipped” the presidential ballot altogether. Still, those same voters did vote down the ticket for other Republican candidates.
Georgia’s Republican congressional candidates received approximately 33,000 more votes than then-President Trump. Republican candidates who ran for state Senate and House seats received approximately 5% more votes than Trump.
Localizing those numbers, Raffensperger said that in White...
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