Category Archives: Georgia

States targeted in Texas election fraud lawsuit condemn ‘cacophony of bogus claims’

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Attorneys general from both parties reject baseless allegations in case filed with US supreme court

Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin on Thursday urged the US supreme court to reject a lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by Donald Trump seeking to undo Joe Biden’s victory, saying the case has no factual or legal grounds and makes “bogus” claims.

“What Texas is doing in this proceeding is to ask this court to reconsider a mass of baseless claims about problems with the election that have already been considered, and rejected, by this court and other courts,” Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general, wrote in a filing to the nine justices.

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Trump election fraud claims are hurting our state, says Georgia official – video

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Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, warned that Donald Trump's repeated claims the election had been stolen were causing damage, after two separate recounts confirmed Joe Biden had won the state. 'We have now counted legally-cast ballots three times, and the results remain unchanged,' Raffensperger said. 'Disinformation regarding election administration should be rejected. Integrity matters. Truth matters.'

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Georgia debate: Loeffler and Warnock spar over Trump election loss – video

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Republican senator Kelly Loeffler repeatedly dodged questions about Donald Trump's election defeat during her debate with Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock ahead of a crucial Senate runoff election in January. Declining to acknowledge Joe Biden had won after a direct question from Warnock, Loeffler said Trump had the right to 'legal recourse' . Warnock replied by attacking Loeffler's response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Georgia.

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Trump’s attacks on election integrity ‘disgust me’, says senior Georgia Republican

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Donald Trump’s attacks on Republican officials in Georgia and insistence his defeat by Joe Biden must be overturned are disgusting, the Republican lieutenant governor of the southern state said on Sunday.

Related: Just 27 of 249 Republicans in Congress willing to say Trump lost, survey finds

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‘If I lost, I’d be a very gracious loser’: Trump pushes false fraud claims in Georgia – video

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Donald Trump campaigned for two Republican senators in Georgia on Saturday, at a rally that some in the party feared could end up hurting their chances by focusing on his efforts to reverse his own election defeat. In his first rally appearance since he lost to Joe Biden, Trump repeated baseless claims of widespread fraud in the presidential election. The crucial January runoff will determine which party controls the Senate

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Trump heads for Georgia but claims of fraud may damage Senate Republicans

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Donald Trump will return to the campaign trail on Saturday – not, notionally at least, in his quixotic and doomed attempt to deny defeat by Joe Biden, but in support of two Republicans who face January run-offs which will decide control of the US Senate.

Related: I beg your pardon? Does Trump really plan to absolve himself and his family?

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Trump’s latest batch of election lawsuits fizzle as dozens of losses pile up

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President no closer to overturning result, with just one small victory in a month’s worth of cases

For a man obsessed with winning, Donald Trump is losing a lot.

In the month since the election, the president and his legal team have come no closer in their frantic efforts to overturn the result, notching up dozens of losses in courts across the country, with more rolling in by the day.

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False election claims ‘misleading the president’, says Georgia secretary of state – video

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Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, pushed back at groups 'exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters' and misleading Donald Trump himself.

A vote recount was requested within two business days of certification in Georgia, where the margin was less than 0.5 percentage points in favour of Joe Biden. 

The Trump campaign has also demanded an audit of the voter signatures that accompanied mail-in ballots

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Trump’s baseless claims of Georgia voter fraud spark fears among Republicans

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As Trump suffers another post-election court defeat, some Republicans worry he could depress turnout in crucial Georgia runoffs

Despite giving his strongest hints yet that he is coming to accept his loss of the White House to challenger Joe Biden, Donald Trump’s continuing reluctance to leave office and baseless claims about electoral fraud are increasingly worrying his own party.

In particular, Republicans are concerned that the chaos caused by Trump’s stance and his false comments on the conduct of the election in the key swing state of Georgia, which Biden won for the Democrats, could hinder his party’s efforts to retain control of the Senate.

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‘Integrity still matters’: the unlikely Republican standing up to Trump’s voter fraud lies

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The Georgia secretary of state tells the Guardian he’s received death threats for pushing back against the president’s claims

Of all the Republicans to push back on Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud, Brad Raffensperger, the mild-mannered top election official in Georgia, did not seem like a likely candidate.

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Georgia’s secretary of state says Lindsey Graham suggested he throw out legal ballots

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Brad Raffensperger says the Republican senator asked if he had the authority to toss out all mail-in ballots in certain counties

Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger has said that Senator Lindsey Graham asked whether it was possible to invalidate legally cast ballots after Donald Trump was narrowly defeated in the state.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Raffensperger said that his fellow Republican, the chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, questioned him about the state’s signature-matching law and asked whether political bias might have played a role in counties where poll workers accepted higher rates of mismatched signatures. According to Raffensperger, Graham then asked whether he had the authority to toss out all mail-in ballots in these counties.

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‘They know their vote matters’: the Georgia Senate runoffs battle is already on

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Trump’s defeat in the reliably red state has shown Democratic voters the power of their ballot, activists say as they focus on Ossoff and Warnock’s races

Donald Trump may have forced a recount of the votes in Georgia that helped end his presidency, but the activists who organised the surge in turnout that helped defeat him have already turned their attention to two elections that will decide who controls the US Senate and the course of Joe Biden’s presidency.

Tens of millions of dollars are pouring in to the Georgia runoff races, which can be expected to draw Biden back to the campaign trail as voters have the opportunity to make history by defeating the state’s two Republican senators to give the new president control of both houses of Congress.

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US deports migrants who accuse detention center gynecologist of abuse

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Six former patients who complained about Dr Mahendra Amin, who has been accused of operating without consent, deported

The Trump administration is trying to deport several women who allege they were mistreated by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration detention center, according to their lawyers.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has already deported six former patients who complained about Dr Mahendra Amin, who has been accused of operating on migrant women without their consent or performing procedures that were medically unnecessary and potentially endangered their ability to have children.

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How Georgia’s Senate run-offs could finally hand Stacey Abrams her victory

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Two years ago, she lost to then-secretary of state Brian Kemp, but that loss spurred her to fight for Georgians’ right to vote

Two years ago, Stacey Abrams became a household name when she ran for governor of Georgia against Brian Kemp, then secretary of state. Though her votes came in short, she refused to concede – citing widespread voter suppression in a state where the election was run by the opponent himself.

In 2020, she is still not the governor. But in some ways, Abrams never lost.

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A history of voter suppression in Georgia – in pictures

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Ever since the 15th amendment granted Black men the right to vote, southern states have found myriad ways to walk back this basic tenet of democracy. From white primaries to poll taxes, to literacy tests and recent voter roll purges, voter suppression has always been a defining characteristic of American elections. As part of her photo project Let The Record Show, Roopa Gogineni spent time at the Atlanta History Center and the Georgia Archives photographing documents and objects to chronicle the centuries-long struggle for the right to vote in the state of Georgia

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‘You’re a crook’: barbs-strewn Georgia election debate goes viral – video

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Republican senator David Perdue has pulled out of the final debate with his Democratic challenger, Jon Ossoff, after the pair exchanged personal attacks during a televised debate on Wednesday.

In the debate moderated by WTOC-TV, Ossoff called the incumbent 'a crook', while Perdue accused his rival of profiting off 'communist China'. The exchange later went viral after Ossoff shared the clip on social media

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US election 2020: mistrust spurring black community to early voting in Georgia – video

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Thousands of members of Georgia's black community have come out to vote early in the US election, enduring long lines and hours of waiting. Many acknowledged they could have voted by mail or returned to a polling place at a different time, but with no expectation of voting becoming easier in the weeks to come, they saw waiting as a necessary step. 'I wanted to make sure that my vote was counted,' Wilbart McCoy said as he queued to cast his ballot. 'The suspicions, or the alleged suspicions around mail-in voting, we never had those before but it pushed me to come out early'

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Record turnout as Americans endure long waits to vote early in 2020 election

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A ‘pretty staggering’ 14 million Americans have already voted in the general election, according to an analysis

As voters turn out in record numbers to choose between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Americans continued to endure hours-long waits to vote early.

A record of 14 million Americans have already voted in the general election, according to an analysis of voting information from the US Elections Project. In key swing states such as Florida more than 2 million voters have already cast their ballots.

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