Critics on both the left and the right are slamming a special grand jury foreperson’s media tour in which she discussed an investigation into former-President Donald Trump’s alleged criminal interference in the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia. “This was a horrible idea and I guarantee you prosecutors are wincing,” Elie Honig, CNN’s senior legal […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is qualified to be a candidate for U.S. Congress and will remain on the ballot for the upcoming election, Georgia’s top election official said on May 6. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, entered his decision hours after state Judge Charles Beaudrot said challengers to Greene’s candidacy failed to […]
Georgia’s secretary of state on July 15 called for Fulton County to fire top elections officials or face takeover by the state. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said the county must fire Richard Barron, its elections director, and Ralph Jones, the county’s voter registration chief. “Every time we think we’ve reached the […]
Georgia’s secretary of state this week announced he is set to remove some 100,000 names from voter rolls, the first major voting list maintenance following the 2020 election. The names are being removed because of a National Change of Address form submitted to the U.S. Postal Service, election mail being sent to them bouncing back; […]
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office on Monday launched an investigation into a phone call former President Donald Trump had with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over settling two lawsuits filed by Trump and his lawyers. “The Secretary of State’s office investigates complaints it receives,” Walter Jones, a spokesman for Raffensperger, told news outlets. He characterized the investigation […]
The Trump campaign has responded to the full audio recording, obtained and released by The Washington Post on Sunday, of a call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which focused on issues of election integrity.
Georgia’s secretary of state is joining other Republicans in calling to end no-excuse absentee voting. It would prevent people from voting by mail without an excuse. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says no-excuse absentee voting “opens the door to potential illegal voting.” For the past 15 years, Georgia has allowed all voters to submit […]
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says they will conduct a statewide check of signatures on mail-in ballots across all 159 counties. Raffensperger says he is confident that Georgia’s elections are “secure, reliable, and effective.” “Because there has been so much different information spread about this issue, I am ordering this extraordinary step,” said Raffensperger. […]
In Georgia, U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. issued three emergency orders on the same case. Plaintiffs, represented by attorney Sidney Powell, eventually convinced the judge—who reversed his decision twice along the way—to stop officials in three counties from wiping or resetting the Dominion Voting Systems machines used in the election. In addition, there are two […]
In this episode of America Is Talking, we get an update on key Georgia lawsuits and an upcoming hearing on election irregularities from Brad Carver, GOP chairman of Georgia’s 11th Congressional District; and Garland Favorito, co-founder of Voters Organized for Trusted Election Results in Georgia. Then, we turn our attention to Pennsylvania, where lawmakers will […]
Update: Georgia’s top elections official announced on Friday afternoon that the state has finally certified the results of the 2020 general election—following a snafu earlier in the day where the Secretary of State’s office announced it certified the election, but later, it sent out a news release with a “correction” saying it would be certified later. Trump’s […]
Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, denies claims that Georgia’s “consent decree” makes it impossible to verify voter signatures. Over the weekend, President Trump wrote on Twitter, “The Consent Decree …makes it impossible to check & match signatures on ballots and envelopes. They knew they were going to cheat. Must expose real signatures!” The consent […]
