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SECRETARY of STATE from front page in Civil Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, and a Masters of Business Administration from Georgia State. He and his wife have been married for 42 years and are members of North Point Community Church. Raffensperger opened quickly addressing election integrity, election reform, and the 2020 Presidential Election. He made several points on Senat Bill 202, stating that “We want all 159 Georgia counties’ vote count to be done in time. . . . lines must be shorter than one hour. . and concerning handing out bottles of water, it’s already law that there will be no politicking
within 150 feet of a precinct.” He said that Georgia has more early voting days than New York, New Jersey, or Deleware. Drop boxes are now law for the first time in Georgia history with the specifics that one dropbox is required per 100,000 voters and that dropbox must be located inside the election office. He also said that he expects a record turnout for the 2022 elections. Then Raffensperger asked the question: “What happened at the State Farm Arena? Nothing.” He was referencing the widely publicized tape of poll workers handling black suitcases on election night November 2020. Trump
lost the election with news outlets nationwide claiming voter fraud as the reason. “If you look at the whole run of the tape of the State Farm Arena - it was under 24/7 video surveillance - and if you watch the process, in the morning they had these big, black, what they called, suitcases. Those were official absentee drop boxes. They were empty. You can see they were empty. They were then closed up and zip tied securely, and put them under the table. . . Around 10:15 p.m. or so they thought they were done for that night. They had started probably about 6:00 a.m. that morning. So they pulled the boxes out and put the unscanned absentee ballots in the boxes, zip tied them, and wheeled them back. “Then the election director for Fulton County then called the precinct manager who was there at State Farm Arena and said, guys, it’s only 10:30 p.m. and all the other counties are working til about one o’clock or two. We need you to go back to work. You see on the tape they then pull them [black suitcases] back out and start scanning, and stayed there until about five o’clock. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, right, responds to a question from Derick Newton at the recent So, that is the full run of the tape.” Carrollton Kiwanis Club meeting (in person and zoom) held Friday, January 7, 2022, at the University of West Raffensperger said, Georgia. Photo by Sue Horn “One thing that did
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happen that was a violation of state law is that they did tell observers and other third party observers that they were done for the evening. They went ahead and left and never came back.” The Secretary spoke on other allegations surrounding the 2020 Presidential Election. “People alleged that there were 10,315 deceased people who voted in the 2020 election. After our investigation, we found there were four - that’s not 4,000 - that’s four. But four is too many. We were also told that 66,200 and some odd underage voters voted. There were zero. But in Georgia, you can registered to vote when you are 17 and 1/2. We knew they would turn 18 before election day. But, we hunted it down and check it out. It was zero under age voting. Also, there were zero unregistered voters. We were told that there were thousands of felons who voted. We found less than 74.” “What really happened in 2020 is that 28,000 Georgians skipped the presidential ballot. They didn’t vote for anyone. And in the Republican Congressional areas, the Republican Congressman got 33,000 more votes than President Trump,” said Raffensperger. “We did a 100% hand recount on the presidental ballot. We took all 5 million of those paper ballots were recounted by hand. Now what we found out were two things: the hand recount was remarkably close to what we got on election night; and two, the machines did not flip votes. And we know the machinese did not flip votes because the counts were remarkably close.” “At the end of the day, we answered all of the questions. Our investigators stay busy. And, in spite of what you may have heard, Georgia is ranked number one in election integrity [HerSee BRAD RAFFENSPERGER page 27
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