In March 2020, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced that the state would send an application for an absentee ballot to all 6.9 million active registered voters for the June 2020 primary due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Raffensperger did not send an actual absentee ballot to every voter. Georgia voters still had the option to vote in person instead of by mail.
Kemp had nothing to do with this process. Under Georgia’s constitution, the Georgia Secretary of State oversees elections.
Days before the May 24 primary, former U.S. Sen. David Perdue claimed that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t do enough to ensure election integrity in 2020.
Purdue made a long list of allegations against Kemp during an interview with Breitbart, a conservative news website. But one in particular jumped out to us as wrong. Perdue said Kemp "allowed 7.5 million ballots to be sent to every registered voter."
Perdue’s statement suggests that as governor, Kemp sent a mail ballot to every voter. Kemp did not do that, nor did Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. In the spring of 2020, Raffensperger sent an application for a mail ballot to every active voter.
This line of attack fits into the falsehoods that Perdue and former President Donald Trump continue to perpetuate — that voting by mail is a scheme promoted by Democrats and their allies.
We contacted Perdue’s campaign to ask for his...
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