Peach Tree Times

Georgia voter group VoterGA contends that a year-old letter that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent to members of Congress and the state General Assembly concerning the 2020 general election results contains numerous errors.

“When Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent the letter to Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, he was refuting concerns raised about the November 2020 election,” Garland Favorito, co-founder of VoterGA, told the Peach Tree Times in an email. "New findings from the last year revealed that Raffensperger made 42 false election claims—many of which were already inconsistent with the Georgia General Assembly findings from December 2020.”

VoterGA’s assessment of the Raffensperger letter was based on documents obtained through Open Records Requests of ballots, images and additional election information, said VoterGA spokeswoman Sheryl Sellaway.

“These efforts took time,” she said. “The good news is some of the points covered in the report have been the subject of previous press conferences such as banning the Dominion Voting Systems in Georgia, the Fulton County ballot case and more.”

In his Jan. 6, 2021, letter, Raffensperger said that “losing candidates contesting election results is nothing new in Georgia. Former gubernatorial candidate Stacy Abrams and her allies made false claims about Georgia election equipment and processes in the run up to and aftermath of her 2018 defeat. Many of those same claims are now made by [President Donald Trump] and his allies. They are false then and false now.”

The VoterGA report covers Raffensperger’s allegations involving voting machines, absentee ballots, poll watchers, and voting by those ineligible to vote.

Raffensperger drew national attention when he resisted Trump's request to "find 11,780 votes" in the former president's bid to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results. Joe Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the Peach State since 1992.

Favorito said that even before the report refuting Raffensperger’s assessment of the elections, VoterGA “exposed numerous election integrity issues including, illegality of the Dominion Voting Systems in Georgia, the fact that 70 counties can’t produce ballot images and 54 counties’ ballot images have been destroyed, fatally flawed hand count audit with a 60% error rate, falsified tally sheets and thousands of duplicate reported votes, insufficient chain of custody paperwork resulting in over 106,000 suspect ballots, the uselessness of drop box videos and more.”