Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said he was stunned after a phone conservation with the South Carolina Republican, in which Raffensperger said Graham pressed him to
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday denied an allegation that he and other Republicans have pressured Georgia’s top election official to toss out legal absentee ballots in a bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s slim win in the Peach State. “That’s ridiculous,” the South Carolina lawmaker told reporters on Capitol Hill about the claim from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who is also a Republican. “What I’m trying to find out was, how do you verify signatures on mail-in ballots in these states that are just the center of attention?” Raffensperger told The Washington Post that apart from Graham’s inquiry into Georgia’s signature-matching process, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman also asked whether Raffensperger had the ability to invalidate all mail-in ballots in counties that have higher rates of nonmatching signatures. Biden leads Trump by little more than 14,100 votes in Georgia, which hasn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996.
