Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan on Monday rejected the Trump campaign’s claims of widespread voter fraud and irregularities, telling CNN his office has not seen any evidence of it.
“We have not had any sort of credible incidents raised to our level yet, and so we’ll continue to make sure that the opportunity to make sure every legal ballot is counted is there, but you know at this point, we’ve not seen any sort of credible examples,” Duncan, a Republican, said.
Presumptive President-elect Joe Biden has pulled ahead of President Trump in Georgia, leading by about 10,486 votes on Monday, according to the secretary of state’s office. The number is slightly up from Sunday night’s 10,353 tally.
Nearly 5 million votes were cast in Georgia, and the state has 16 electoral votes up for grabs.
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee have tapped Rep. Doug Collins to head up the fraud fight in Georgia.
Trump and the RNC have claimed voter fraud occurred in several states across the country as they continue to push back on Biden’s perceived victory.
Collins, a four-term Gainesville congressman who lost his bid for the Senate last week to fellow Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, said, “Georgians deserve a free and open process, and they will get one.”
Collins is the lone senior GOP official in Georgia to actively promote the theory that Biden “stole” the election.
He said in a statement that the Trump campaign was “confident” that they would “find evidence of improperly harvested ballots.”
