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November 17, 2020

Georgia Secretary of State Says Fellow Republicans Pressuring Him to Overturn Election Results
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Georgia's Republican secretary of state says members of his own party
are pressuring him to exclude legally cast ballots from a hand recount
of the November 3 election results. Speaking from quarantine after his
wife tested positive for coronavirus, Brad Raffensperger said South
Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, the chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, urged him to throw out all mail-in ballots in certain
counties. And Raffensperger blasted Georgia Republican Congressmember
Douglas Collins for accusing him of capitulating to Democrats.
Raffensperger said, "I'm an engineer. We look at numbers. We look at
hard data. I can't help it that a failed candidate like Doug Collins is
running around lying to everyone. He's a liar." Georgia's initial count
showed Joe Biden won by over 14,000 votes - a result that's extremely
unlikely to change significantly after a recount.


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