Georgiaâs Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) is continuing to defend the stateâs election process.
However, he says some people are preying on the emotions of President Donald Trumpâs supporters by disseminating âmassive amounts of misinformationâ about the election.
âThere are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation,â he said.
He added, âAnd frankly, they are misleading the president as well, apparently.â
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Georgiaâs voting system implementation manager, Gabriel Sterling, also sought to dismiss allegations that were switched, âThe ridiculous things claimed in some of these lawsuits are just that. Theyâre insanity. Itâs fever dream, made-up, internet cabal.â
âHowever many words I can use to say how crazy some of these things are. Nothing was shipped overseas. No votes were switched. We did a hand audit that proved no votes were switched. I mean, that in and of itself should have been enough to make people understand that.â
Since the President-elect Joe Biden carried the state in the presidential election, the first Democratic nominee to do so since 1992, Trump has claimed without evidence that the state has a âfraudulent system.â
He also accused Raffensperger of being an âenemy of the people.â
Georgia Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R) and David Perdue (R), who both running for reelection in run-off elections, have also claimed that Raffenspergerâ failed to deliver honest and transparent electionsâ and have called for his resignation.
Raffensperger has defended the administration of his stateâs election and denied that there was widespread fraud.
He has also said an audit of voting machines found no evidence they were âtamperedâ with.
Despite Raffensperger and other Georgia officialsâ statements that they have not uncovered evidence of widespread fraud, Trump has continued to lash out at the stateâs leaders.
On Monday, he asked, âWhy wonât Governor , the hapless Governor of Georgia, use his emergency powers, which can be easily done, to overrule his obstinate Secretary of State, and do a match of signatures on envelopes.â
âIt will be a âgoldmineâ of fraud, and we will easily WIN the state,â he added.
And during an interview on Sunday, he blasted Raffensperger as a âdisaster.â
For his part, Raffensperger said the state conducted a âwildly successful and smooth electionâ and said his family supported Trump but are now âbeing thrown under the bus by him.â
