Georgia Secretary of State Announces Signature Audit in Key County Biden Won
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Monday that there will be an absentee ballot signature audit of Cobb County, which went heavily for Democrat Joe Biden.
“Our office will be partnering with [the Georgia Bureau of Investigation] to conduct a signature match audit in Cobb County following specific reports that the county failed to adequately conduct signature matching. This audit will take around two weeks but will not change the outcome of the November elections,” Raffensperger tweeted.
“We will also be working with an accredited university on a third-party signature match statewide audit study. Together, we will restore faith,” the Secretary of State added.
We will also be working with an accredited university on a third-party signature match statewide audit study. Together, we will restore faith. #GaPol #SecureVoteGa
— GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (@GaSecofState) December 14, 2020
Biden carried the county, which is in the Atlanta metropolitan area, by a tally of 221,846 to President Donald Trump’s 165,459 or 56.3 to 42 percent.
By contrast in 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton won Cobb by a vote of 160,121 to Trump’s 152,912 or 47.9 to 45.8 percent.
So Biden outdid her by 61,725 additional votes.
In Cobb, there were 95,513 absentee ballots cast for Biden versus 50,764 for Trump.
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President Trump has repeatedly stated that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp should call a special session of the Georgia legislature in order to mandate absentee ballot signature verification statewide.
“RINOS @BrianKempGA, @GeoffDuncanGA, & Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, will be solely responsible for the potential loss of our two GREAT Senators from Georgia, @sendavidperdue & @KLoeffler. Won’t call a Special Session or check for Signature Verification! People are ANGRY!” the president tweeted earlier this month.
RINOS @BrianKempGA, @GeoffDuncanGA, & Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, will be solely responsible for the potential loss of our two GREAT Senators from Georgia, @sendavidperdue & @KLoeffler. Won’t call a Special Session or check for Signature Verification! People are ANGRY!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2020
Kemp tweeted his support for the signature audit in Cobb County Monday.
“After calling for a signature audit repeatedly since the November 3rd election, I am glad Secretary Raffensperger has finally taken this necessary step to begin restoring confidence in Georgia’s election process,” the governor tweeted.
After calling for a signature audit repeatedly since the November 3rd election, I am glad Secretary Raffensperger has finally taken this necessary step to begin restoring confidence in Georgia’s election process. #gapol https://t.co/5817TOAiMs
— Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) December 15, 2020
Fox News reported, “The audit will check whether signatures on absentee ballot envelops matched signature records among registered voters in the county.”
Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin, who is part of Trump’s legal team in Georgia, tweeted the audit should include: “signature on file, absentee ballot application sig, AND outer envelope sig – must verify ALL THREE.”
Breaking: ? @GaSecofState announced there will be signature audit in Cobb Co., GA based on info they did not verify signatures.
My .02 audit must include be in 3 places: signature on file, absentee ballot application sig, AND outer envelope sig – must verify ALL THREE.
— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) December 14, 2020
Currently, 12,670 votes separate Trump and Biden in the Peach State following hand recounts, which discovered thousands of uncounted ballots and netted the president approximately 1,300 votes.
The Trump campaign alleges that tens of thousands of ballots were unlawfully counted in the presidential election in Georgia.
Among the Trump legal team’s key findings listed in a lawsuit filed in a Georgia state court are that 66,247 underage people voted.
THREAD: Trump Campaign lawsuit in GA is now available online. It consists of 1585 pages outlining significant evidence of fraud.
Here are some key points:
2,560 felons voted
66,247 underage voters
2,423 votes from people not registered
1,043 individuals registered at PO boxes— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) December 9, 2020
Further, given past absentee ballot rejection rates of 2.9 percent (in 2016) to 3.46 percent (in 2018), somewhere between 38,250 and 45,626 ballots should have been rejected instead of the 0.34 percent, or 4,471, out of the 1.3 million cast, the campaign said.
