During remarks to the Rotary Club of Statesboro last week, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that Georgia has “bit by bit” won against challenges to the integrity of its elections from within both major political parties.
“And we just want you to know, we think we’re going to have record turnout next year, in 2024,” he said. “We understand, and I think you understand, that our country is polarized, and because it’s polarized, it’s just really encouraging people to get out on both sides of the aisle.
“But we can give you 100 percent confidence that the election will be secure and it will be accurate,” Raffensperger declared.
A Republican first elected as secretary of state in 2018, he faced verbal attacks from within his own party after now-President Joe Biden carried Georgia by a slim margin over then-President Donald Trump in November 2020 and two Democrats won the state’s U.S. Senate seats in a subsequent runoff.
Some people who believed or pushed false claims that Trump had won also threatened and accused county-level election workers in Georgia. Just last week, June 20, the day before Raffensperger spoke here, the State Elections Board formally concluded an investigation that began two and a half years ago into allegations of misconduct by Fulton County election workers. Trump supporters – including a team who spoke to state lawmakers in December 2020 – used edited video to advance false claims of two election workers having produced “suitcases” full...
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