Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results
BY CAROLINE LINTON
NOVEMBER 21, 2020 / 8:08 AM / CBS NEWS
Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp certified the state's election results Friday, saying that now that the results are certified, the Trump campaign can pursue other legal options to call for a recount. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a Republican, told reporters Friday morning that President-elect Biden had definitively won the state, after the state's hand recount was completed Thursday.
But Kemp didn't endorse the results, instead calling for another full hand recount. Kemp, who served as Georgia secretary of state before Raffensperger, has not publicly defended the state's election process from accusations from the president and his campaign. He alleged Friday that the audit revealed significant errors made in several counties, including Floyd, Douglas and Walton.
Kemp said the audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures on the absentee applications or the signatures on the ballot envelopes. He called for Raffensperger to "consider addressing these concerns" and conduct a "sample of audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes and compare those to the signatures on applications and on file that the secretary of state's office."
The Georgia Secretary of State's office has said repeatedly that at this point in the process it is not possible to match signatures — which already took place as a part of a two-step signature verification process — because ballots are separated from envelopes to ensure the secrecy of voters' selections.
Kemp's press conference will come after a strange series of events Friday afternoon, starting with Raffensperger issuing a statement saying the results had been certified, then making a corrected statement within a half-hour that they would be certified later Friday. He certified the results around 4 p.m., an hour before Kemp was set to hold his press conference.
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voters to turn out for the run-offs, not a genuine legal move.
As for flipping votes on machines, perhaps. Examination of GA's old system left me with no other conclusion than that it was designed TO be easily tampered with by the same people who still run the state.
This time Republicans apparently were foiled in tampering with the national and many state elections by the very high level of scrutiny -- state and federal investigative agencies, intelligence services, media, public. But this runoff may be giving them new opportunity in GA. Will our intelligence agencies be monitoring these state senate races for Russian and other hostile involvement?
We've also sent for mail-in ballots, which we will personally deliver. And hope that's enough.
I am not casting any “asparagus” at the poster—only CBS. CBS blew it with that headline.
-Laelth
