A staffer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger confirms Graham's request

[Nevilledog]

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Kyle Griffin
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Witness corroborates claim against Graham:

A staffer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger says he participated in that controversial phone call with Lindsey Graham and said he heard Graham ask if state officials could throw out ballots.
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Witness corroborates claim that Lindsey Graham asked about tossing ballots in Georgia
A staffer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger said Tuesday that he participated in a controversial phone call with Sen. Lindsey Graham and said he heard Graham ask if state officials...
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11:00 AM · Nov 17, 2020

[Leghorn21]

1. A tweeter says,

“Sounds like another ‘perfect call’!”

[NCDem47]

2. Could it be that this story has real legs and implications?

Or will this turd weather the storm and slither by?

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. GOP are not subject to the law, rules, decorum, etc...

[Doodley]

4. Depends how Democratic lawmakers deal with it. They tend to take a butter knife to a gunfight.

[bluestarone]

5. Wondering, IF we get control of the senate

Is there ANYTHING we could do to investigate this?

[Botany]

6. So a republican senator from South Carolina called the State of Georgia's Sec. of State and asked..

... him to throw away ballots in order to change the outcome of the state's vote
in a Presidential election? Lindsey should be thrown out of the senate if this is
true and his recent "victory" in his own senate race in South Carolina should be
looked at.

[Cicada]

7. Did Lindsey say he was asking for a friend?

[ecstatic]

8. Now he admits to calling Nevada and Arizona!

This is NOT ok. Did any SOS's follow his instructions? Perhaps in South Carolina????

And this is personal for me because I voted absentee in Georgia. This slimy motherfucker doesn't even live here and wants to have my vote tossed! Hey Lindsey: FUCK YOU, you weak, cowardly, blackmailed puppet piece of trumper shit!

[Nevilledog]

9. And Nevada and Arizona Secretaries of State say he didn't call them

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[ecstatic]

11. WTF??????? He's a liar and needs to resign. NOW! nt

[Buckeyeblue]

10. Lindsey should have to resign. Could this be attempted conspiracy?

The FBI should investigate.

[Lonestarblue]

14. Yes, they should but they won't. It's still Barr time.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R

[blueinredohio]

13. Calls for an investigation!!

[wnylib]

15. I don't expect an investigation until

after Jan 20, if then.

But if an investigation turned up vote counting fraud that put the loser in Congress, could the election be overturned at that point? It would be an illegal election based on a felony. Remove the fraudulent winner and hold another election for the Senate or House seat, whichever was involved?

Would this kind of fraud explain the discrepancy between polls and outcome?

[LeftInTX]

18. They overturned an election in NC

It can be done

[LeftInTX]

16. I'm really not surprised that slimey Ted Cruz was not involved in this

[SpankMe]

17. Republicans know the fewer votes cast and counted, the more likely they are to win

So, Graham asked the GA SoS to really, really sharpen that pencil and narrow the requirements to the point where any excursions on a submitted ballot - right down to the thickness of the lines used by the pen that signed said ballot - be deemed a violation and thus an excuse to dismiss a ballot.

Technically, they can interpret their way out of this being an unlawful request. But the fact that a Republican from another state even spoke to GA SoS about this AT ALL is evidence enough that they're trying to put their fingers on the scale.

Republicans are dishonorable.

[James48]

19. 18 U.S. Code § 595. Interference

18 U.S. Code § 595. Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments
U.S. Code



Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States or by any such political subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.