Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results
Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp licensed the state’s election results Friday, saying that now that the results are licensed, the Trump marketing campaign can pursue different authorized choices to name for a recount. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, additionally a Republican, instructed reporters Friday morning that President-elect Biden had definitively gained the state, after the state’s hand recount was accomplished Thursday.
But Kemp did not endorse the results, as a substitute calling for one other full hand recount. Kemp, who served as Georgia secretary of state earlier than Raffensperger, has not publicly defended the state’s election course of from accusations from the president and his marketing campaign. He alleged Friday that the audit revealed vital errors made in a number of counties, together with Floyd, Douglas and Walton.
Kemp stated the audit solely checked out ballots, not the signatures on the absentee functions or the signatures on the poll envelopes. He known as for Raffensperger to “consider addressing these concerns” and conduct a “sample of audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes and compare those to the signatures on applications and on file that the secretary of state’s office.”
The Georgia Secretary of State’s workplace has stated repeatedly that at this level within the course of it isn’t attainable to match signatures — which already befell as part of a two-step signature verification course of — as a result of ballots are separated from envelopes to make sure the secrecy of voters’ picks.
Kemp’s press convention will come after an odd sequence of occasions Friday afternoon, beginning with Raffensperger issuing a press release saying the results had been licensed, then making a corrected assertion inside a half-hour that they’d be licensed later Friday. He licensed the results round 4 p.m., an hour earlier than Kemp was set to carry his press convention.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump on Friday in tweet accused Kemp and Raffensperger of refusing to “let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots” which he alleged would give the “Republican Party and me, David Perdue, and perhaps Kelly Loeffler, a BIG VICTORY.”
“Why won’t they do it, and why are they so fast to certify a meaningless tally?” Mr. Trump tweeted.
Since the results of the hand recount have been nonetheless inside the 0.5% margin, the Trump marketing campaign could request one other recount inside two enterprise days. If the Trump marketing campaign does ask for one other recount, it will likely be a machine recount.
Georgia was one in every of 5 states Mr. Biden flipped from Mr. Trump‘s 2016 victory. The state has not voted to ship a Democrat to the White House since former President Bill Clinton gained it in 1992.
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