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What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
By Stacey Lennox Nov 29, 2020 7:13 PM ET
Quote:One has to wonder if Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is thinking at all. Under his leadership, the state rammed through an election technology system change violating every known rule of system implementation project management. It deployed this completely new system for one of the most contested national elections in our nation’s history. Then the state became an international embarrassment when the whole process fell apart on election night.
Now, the eyes of the world are on Georgia because two runoffs will determine the majority in the Senate. So, what do Raffensperger and the rest of the Georgia State Election Board do? You guessed it. Outside of the legislative process, they are changing the rules again, according to Fox News:
The five-member Georgia State Election Board, chaired by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, voted on Monday to extend the use of the 24/7 monitored drop boxes for use through the runoffs. Use of the boxes was originally set to expire in late December.
The move comes amid a surge in absentee ballot requests in the runoff elections. Officials said that as of Monday morning 762,000 requests for absentee ballots had been submitted.
A second rule adopted allows counties to continue to begin processing absentee ballots two weeks before Election Day – but now also mandates them to start processing them no later than a week and one day ahead of the election. But as per Georgia law, none of the ballots would be tabulated and counted until the polls close on Jan. 5.
Voters in the state are already skeptical of the results of the November elections. Overwhelming numbers of mail-in ballots, late updates to the elections system, and a complete disaster in Fulton County were bad enough. Now, a lawsuit is alleging other irregularities, such as the lack of audit logs, signature verifications, and prohibiting observers.
One request for an injunction to prevent resetting the Dominion voting machines, brought by Attorney Lin Wood against Governor Brian Kemp and the full State Elections Board, was denied. District Court Judge Timothy Batten held that the machines actually belonged to the counties, and an order to impound the machines could not be issued to the state-level officials.
Quote:This entire situation is a hot mess. Raffensperger had an opportunity to increase confidence in free and fair elections in the state as two elections with national implications are looming. Instead, he has extended the use of insecure and illegal procedures—decisions that could well break the republic.
Georgia should conduct the January run-offs in compliance with the very letter of Georgia’s election laws. If Abrams and her partisan organizations want changes, they need to seek them legislatively, not by fiat. At this rate, she might as well be the governor.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/st...g-n1180075
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
Is this guy a plant?
Seriously. Is he trying to intentionally flip these seats and have the dims in charge of all 3 branches of Gov't?
(That last part is a joke )
(This post was last modified: 11-30-2020 04:46 PM by JMUDunk.)
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
Sounds like he's not thinking.
His settlement reducing signature verification this past spring was unconscionable.
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
Someone got his.
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
(11-30-2020 04:53 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: Someone got his.
Sidney claims to have the receipts on the kickbacks to this clown and a few others for buying the Dominion machines. We'll soon see.
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
The in person voting system in GA is one of the most secure. The voting machine is a ballot marker, it prints out your ballot on paper which you can verify then hand it to be counted by an automated counting machine.
This means everything can be audited by going back to the paper ballots.
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11-30-2020 05:44 PM |
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
Sounds like GA seats are SAFE democrat now.
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11-30-2020 05:59 PM |
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RE: What Is Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Thinking?
(11-30-2020 05:44 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote: The in person voting system in GA is one of the most secure. The voting machine is a ballot marker, it prints out your ballot on paper which you can verify then hand it to be counted by an automated counting machine.
This means everything can be audited by going back to the paper ballots.
Garbage in, garbage out. An illegal ballot, no matter how many times you can accurately count it, is still an illegal ballot.
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