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In late December 2020, President Trump contacted Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, urging him to examine issues uncovered by an auditor, claiming there was substantial evidence rendering the election uncertifiable. Raffensperger’s office allegedly recorded the call, leaked a misleading transcript to The Washington Post, and subsequently deleted the audio after being exposed.
The Washington Post later corrected their story, acknowledging the misquotation of Trump’s comments during the call. The correction revealed that Trump did not instruct the investigator to “find the fraud” but encouraged scrutiny of ballots in Fulton County, Georgia.
This incident sheds light on the contentious relationship between Trump and Georgia officials. Beyond the disputed call, a report titled “The Aftermath” by True the Vote, an organization working on election-related issues, accuses Raffensperger of lying about the election’s cleanliness. The report emphasizes the impact of inaccurate voter rolls on the 2020 Georgia presidential election.
In August 2023, True the Vote published “The Aftermath,” addressing their work in Georgia throughout the 2020 election cycle. The report alleges that Raffensperger misled Trump about the election’s integrity during their phone call. Catherine Engelbrecht, associated with True the Vote, released a legal affidavit supporting these claims. In December 2020, she informed Raffensperger about 67,284 votes that likely should not have been counted due to ineligible voter registrations.
The affidavit suggests that Raffensperger and General Counsel Ryan Germany knowingly provided false information when they asserted there was no evidence of election irregularities or issues with voting records. Raffensperger was reportedly aware that Georgia’s voter rolls had not been cleaned for approximately two years, leading to a significant error rate based on residency.
On that call, President Trump asked about inaccurate voter records. Both Secretary Raffensperger and General Counsel Ryan Germany stated that they had fully evaluated the various claims of election irregularities and said without qualification there was no evidence to support them, including no problems with the voting records. This statement was knowingly false. Both men were well-aware of that falsity at the time.
Sec of State Brad Raffensperger knew Georgia’s voter rolls had not been cleaned in approx two years. This would naturally cause skyrocketing errors of over 20% ineligible records across the state, based on residency alone.
In mid-December 2020, well after the General Election had been certified by Raffensperger, and in advance of True the Vote’s preparation of 364,000 voter record challenges based on ineligible residency, Catherine Engelbrecht met with Raffensperger to discuss the challenges citizens would soon be filing. His comment? ‘That seems about right. The GOP should have been doing this all along.” He knew the rolls were inaccurate. What was his excuse for not maintaining them? In 2019, Stacey Abrams and Fair Fight filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent voter roll maintenance, arguing that roll cleaning was erroneous and racially biased. The State went on to win the lawsuit in 2021, but during the period from 2019 to 2021 Raffensperger acquiesced to Abrams.
Mail ballots, drop boxes, no ID requirements, no monitoring, all catalyzed by inaccurate voter records. What actions were taken in 2020 to prevent illegal votes from being cast? Were any eligibility checks done before Georgia’s vote count was certified?
When Raffensperger asserted to President Trump that there was no election fraud, what was he basing that assertion on? If he didn’t know of the stats listed above, then he wasn’t doing his job. If he did know, then he was complicit. In either case, his assertion was untrue.
If the election had been lawfully conducted, votes from all ineligible voter records should have been challenged, with votes cast provisionally, only to be counted if proof of eligible residency could be provided.
Georgia’s lack of voter roll maintenance, together with rules that lowered identification standards for mail-in and inactive records, created an expressway for fraud.
Make no mistake, this is not the only problem with our elections, but inaccurate voter rolls are where election fraud begins.
The report underscores the lack of voter roll maintenance, lax identification standards for mail-in and inactive records, and the potential for fraud. It questions Raffensperger’s basis for denying election fraud, asserting that either he was unaware of critical statistics or was complicit in providing inaccurate information. The report advocates for challenging votes from ineligible records, conducting eligibility checks, and addressing systemic issues to safeguard election integrity.
