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brooklynite

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Mon Nov 16, 2020, 02:21 PM Nov 2020

Georgia's GOP Secretary of State Unloads on Trump's Election Lies

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Source: Vice News

Georgia’s Republican secretary of state has had enough of President Trump’s lies about voting integrity.

After a week of attacks from Trump and his allies claiming that his apparent loss in Georgia was due to voting irregularities, Brad Raffensperger fired back Sunday night, writing a series of Facebook posts knocking back the claims and taking a swipe at Rep. Doug Collins, a top Trump deputy.

In one particularly pointed post, Raffensperger defended the state’s process of matching absentee vote signatures before swinging at Collins, who was tasked with leading Trump’s post-election efforts in the state after he lost a Senate bid two weeks ago.

“Failed candidate Doug Collins is a liar— but what’s new?” Raffensperger wrote.



Read more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpb3v/georgias-gop-secretary-of-state-unloads-on-trumps-election-lies
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