Georgia's secretary of state has relented and announced a statewide signature-matching effort for the November election.
President Donald Trump's campaign claimed voter fraud and has requested that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger order such an audit since the election ended.
Signatures for absentee ballots in all of Georgia's 159 counties will be reviewed, per The Washington Times.
Raffensperger's announcement came less than three weeks before the Jan. 5 Georgia U.S. Senate runoff election for both seats in the upper chamber. The election will determine which party will hold a Senate majority.
The University of Georgia will partner with the secretary's office to analyze a random sampling of signatures from each county for mail-in ballots during the November election, a Thursday press release said. The audit is expected to wrap up in two weeks.
"We are confident that elections in Georgia are secure, reliable and effective," Mr. Raffensperger said.
"Despite endless lawsuits and wild allegations from Washington, D.C., pundits, we have seen no actual evidence of widespread voter fraud, though we are investigating all credible reports. Nonetheless, we look forward to working with the University of Georgia on this signature match review to further instill confidence in Georgia’s voting systems."
The state already was auditing signatures for mail-in ballots in Cobb County, an Atlanta suburb. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is helping with that effort.
"The Trump campaign claimed that Cobb County did not properly conduct signature match in June," Jordan Fuchs, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state said. "After the countywide audit, we will look at the entire state. We will look at the entire election to make sure signature match was executed properly."
Georgia was among several battleground states accused of widespread voter fraud, centering on mail-in ballots, by President Trump.
The president lost the state by 0.2 percent or 11,779 votes.
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December 17, 2020, 06:38 PM
Ackks
^^^If breaking, shocking, and biblical are out...can we say hell has frozen over?
Kidding aside, the "random sampling is going to be a freaking joke. It's another delay tactic to run out the clock, which may make the legal challenges even more difficult because they can say they are examining the ballots.
December 17, 2020, 06:46 PM
vthoky
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Originally posted by kimber1911: Maybe we check with Mark Robinson. he just entered the political field and has not had time to become corrupt.
We might need to look for those just entering politics like Mark Robinson.
President Trump became President as a non-politician, so I am hopeful we can find others. George Washington did not necessarily want to be President.
Politicians are corrupt because they think they cannot be replaced. We need show them that, that is a false assumption.
Heck, yes!
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Originally posted by sigspecops: For starters we go back to representatives that live in their own districts all of the time and each day they conduct business out of a local office and their constituents can stop by for visits most any time. When they screw us over they need to feel the heat and pressure of a face to face conversation from the ones they represent.
Heck, yes!!
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Originally posted by az4783054: term limits!
HECK, YES!!!
God bless America.
December 17, 2020, 07:23 PM
lastmanstanding
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Originally posted by 12131:
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repeating the claim a staffer heard Roberts yelling in the mtg about the Texas case.
Regurgitated hearsay. Was initially brought up a few pages back.
Noise and more noise. So the Supreme Court justices were arguing over a case. Isn't that what they are supposed to do? So it got a little heated and one justice loudly said something that was overheard by some clerk and or someone else and was leaked to the media. So what? does anyone think this is going to change anyone's mind or reverse the outcome of the election?
This and so many other things are the shiny things we are supposed to be looking at. This is in Trump's and only Trump's hands at this point imo. Is he willing and does he have what he needs to declare a national emergency or the insurrection act? This is the Trump card if you will. If someone sees another way other than that I'd like to hear it.
Sounds like Ratcliffe is the lone fighter standing with Trump. He needs to produce the goods. Something far more than just disagreeing with the rest of the entire intelligence community. Lets hope he can deliver.
"Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton
December 17, 2020, 07:55 PM
sjtill
The real shame is, it's taken President Trump four years to find people who will really stand up with him. People like Ratcliffe, Grenell, Pompeo; and in Congress Jim Jordan, Tom Cotton, hell, Ted Cruz. Having survived everything the Dems could throw at him, he was ready to kick ass and take names. Now, even his attorneys and other surrogates seem to have failed him in defending him effectively against the stolen election. It will be a tragedy if it plays out that way.
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How do you get senators, representatives to vote for endings of their careers? I would speculate that a limit would have to pass both house and senate.
It’s a good solution but how can it be implemented?
December 17, 2020, 08:50 PM
tigereye313
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Originally posted by Wolfpacker:
How do you get senators, representatives to vote for endings of their careers? I would speculate that a limit would have to pass both house and senate.
It’s a good solution but how can it be implemented?
Senator Cruz supports the idea.
I think the only way it could ever happen is via a Constitutional Convention.
December 17, 2020, 09:08 PM
signewt
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via a Constitutional Convention.
given the opportunity to introduce chaos and turmoil, how would the actual results be properly ascertained?
And given the depths of cowardice & misrepresentation on all manner of other political issues, how could realistic debate be conducted?
And given what a wretched threat to all manner of basic rights just barely in the thinnest margin of balance between the urban interests in mismanaging their part of the Republic, what would dissuade them from further ruining rural version of self rule?
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December 17, 2020, 09:10 PM
tigereye313
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Originally posted by signewt:
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via a Constitutional Convention.
given the opportunity to introduce chaos and turmoil, how would the actual results be properly ascertained?
And given the depths of cowardice & misrepresentation on all manner of other political issues, how could realistic debate be conducted?
And given what a wretched threat to all manner of basic rights just barely in the thinnest margin of balance between the urban interests in mismanaging their part of the Republic, what would dissuade them from further ruining rural version of self rule?
Didn't say it was a good idea, only said it would be the only way I could see getting it done.
December 18, 2020, 06:23 AM
wcb6092
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December 18, 2020, 07:23 AM
MikeinNC
^^^wrt the agencies slow walking the into for the required report on foreign interference with our elections....POTUS should go stand over someone’s desk with his Secret Service agents playing with their handcuffs...
"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein
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December 18, 2020, 07:50 AM
rat2306
Fox hasn't shut Lou Dobbs down, at least. All I can say about that segment is: Oh shit.
December 18, 2020, 08:10 AM
a1abdj
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agencies slow walking the into for the required report on foreign interference with our elections.
They could finish their reports from a jail cell.
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18 U.S. Code § 595.Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments
U.S. Code
Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States or by any such political subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
This section shall not prohibit or make unlawful any act by any officer or employee of any educational or research institution, establishment, agency, or system which is supported in whole or in part by any state or political subdivision thereof, or by the District of Columbia or by any Territory or Possession of the United States; or by any recognized religious, philanthropic or cultural organization.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 720; Pub. L. 91–405, title II, § 204(d)(6), Sept. 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 853; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), (L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Originally posted by rat2306: Fox hasn't shut Lou Dobbs down, at least. All I can say about that segment is: Oh shit.
You may have spoken too early.
Lou Dobbs YouTube video was removed. Thanks for posting WCB6092. I was able to view it before they pulled it. Lou Dobbs is holding his ground, good for him.
“We’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration…President Obama’s administration before this. We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Pres. Select, Joe Biden
“Let’s go, Brandon” Kelli Stavast, 2 Oct. 2021
December 18, 2020, 08:46 AM
Brianp90
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Originally posted by kimber1911:
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Originally posted by rat2306: Fox hasn't shut Lou Dobbs down, at least. All I can say about that segment is: Oh shit.
You may have spoken too early.
Lou Dobbs YouTube video was removed. Thanks for posting WCB6092. I was able to view it before they pulled it. Lou Dobbs is holding his ground, good for him.
Dobbs and Bartiromo I think are still trying to fight the good fight on Fox Business.
Fox News Channel = Faux News Channel
Ditched Hulu for Sling as it has Newsmax
Greg Kelly is really good and adds a bit of sardonic humor at times
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Originally posted by Brianp90:
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Originally posted by kimber1911:
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Originally posted by rat2306: Fox hasn't shut Lou Dobbs down, at least. All I can say about that segment is: Oh shit.
You may have spoken too early.
Lou Dobbs YouTube video was removed. Thanks for posting WCB6092. I was able to view it before they pulled it. Lou Dobbs is holding his ground, good for him.
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December 18, 2020, 10:18 AM
chellim1
Let's look at what Sen. Paul said again:
"The election in many ways was stolen and the only way it will be fixed is by in the future reinforcing the laws."
I think the most important and telling part of this sentence is the phrase, "in the future". So Paul is not proposing that anything should be done now, or, heaven forbid, that he should do any of it. Rather, let's just ignore everything that happened in the last couple of months, the suspicious counting, the mysterious, appearing-in-the-middle-of-the-night ballots, the unsecure mail-in voting, let's just put all of that behind us now, and, going forward, it's all going to be good. Trust us.
Real conservatives have been complaining for years that fake conservativism, (Conservatism, Inc.) doesn't ever really conserve anything.
What hill should we be willing to die on? The next one. Or the one after that one. But the one we're standing on right now? Nope, sorry, not this one. Too risky.
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
December 18, 2020, 10:24 AM
12131
^^^ Yep, that "in the future" stood out like a sore thumb.
Q
December 18, 2020, 10:30 AM
benny6
It could be interpreted either way. If election laws were enforced before the election, we wouldn't have had fraud or "inconsistencies".
If, hypothetically, Trump declares martial law and the military re-runs elections in swing states, it's a future election.
I don't think he's saying to give up on the most recent one.