Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said three counties in his state violated absentee ballot regulations during the 2020 elections and referred them for investigation.
“Since day one, I have made securing Georgia’s election a top priority and I have not stopped working since then,” Raffensperger said. “Though the overwhelming majority of counties did what they were supposed to, this demonstrates that new steps need to be taken to fully secure our elections. Securing elections is work that is never truly finished.”
He referred Coffee, Grady, and Taylor counties for investigation after they “failed to do their absentee ballot transfer forms in violation of Georgia Rules and Regulations.”
The counties account for 0.37% of all the absentee ballots cast in the November election. Raffensperger said 123 counties had drop boxes during the 2020 election, and only 120 “filled out and retained ballot transfer forms in accordance with Georgia rules.”
Georgia became a focal point of the general election, with President Joe Biden narrowly carrying the state by a margin of 0.24%. Former President Donald Trump has continued to claim the election was “stolen” from him and has harshly criticized Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp for their handling of alleged voting fraud.
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Trump sounded off on Georgia’s new election integrity law this week, saying reforms are needed in the state but that they should be stronger and should have come before the election.
“Too bad the desperately needed election reforms in Georgia didn’t go further, as their originally approved Bill did, but the Governor and Lt. Governor would not go for it. The watered-down version, that was just passed and signed by Governor Kemp, while better than before, doesn’t have Signature Matching and many other safety measures, which were sadly left out. This Bill should have been passed before the 2020 Presidential Election, not after,” Trump said in a statement Monday.
Raffensperger has said that there was no widespread fraud in the election, even though he wished Trump “would have won.”
“We’ve never found systemic fraud — not enough to overturn the election,” he said in December.
