Georgia Republicans have been an embarrassment.
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President Trump urged a “hapless” Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to overrule Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the matter of matching ballot signatures during the state’s recount effort.
Both Kemp and Raffensperger are Republicans.
Georgia adopted emergency rules ahead of the election to protect the privacy of the voter by calling for the separation of the ballot from the envelope.
Meaning, as Raffensperger has insisted, “matching the signature on the outer envelope to the absentee ballot on the inside is impossible.”
The President’s campaign has asserted for quite some time that any recount in Georgia “would be a sham” without signature matching.
“Why won’t Governor [Brian Kemp], 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,” Trump tweeted.
“It will be a ‘goldmine’ of fraud, and we will easily WIN the state,” he claimed.
The President also suggested it would be “simple” to just try to match up the number of ballots with the number of envelopes, with a greater number of ballots indicating fraudulent activity.
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