JohnStOnge wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 7:26 pm
Somebody may have started a thread on this already but I don't see it if they did. See
https://abcnews4.com/news/beyond-the-po ... ing-claims.
Some things to note:
The allegations pertain to the Georgia Senate runoff election; not the Presidential election.
The allegations involve about 5,000 votes. The Democrat Senatorial candidates won their races by 93,272 and 54,944 votes.
Raffensperger is quoted in the article at saying this:
Ballot harvesting, those are still lawful ballots, they’ve just been handled fraudulently.
That may mean that the votes were legal regardless and it's just an issue of prosecuting the people who transported the ballots. Could be that the numbers would not have changed at all if this did happen and they caught it before the vote counting was done.
Meanwhile, at this point, it's an allegation by a Republican group being investigated. It's not the first time they've had allegations by Republican groups and investigated them. So far the allegations haven't fared well. We'll see what happens this time.
Just to clarify some inaccuracies first. The article does not say 'about 5,000". It says reports are at least 242 people dropped off
over 5,000 ballots. Almost all election complaints (legitimate ones anyway) that come into the SOS are from local election officials, not political groups.
Stacey Abrams and her groups have been ballot harvesting in Georgia for years. Leftist Super PACs and the Donk party have poured tens of millions of dollars into the state running these voter registration/ballot harvesting schemes. They are well organized, well funded, and extremely corrupt. They will pull people off the street, friends of friends, etc., give them a stack of voter registration forms and pay them X number of dollars for every completed registration they return. Some are actually legitimate registrations, but the vast majority are bogus. The problem is that Abrams and her groups just don't care if the registrations are fictitious or not. Once the state kicks out the fraudulent ones, it gives them a perfect opportunity to run to the press and scream 'suppression'.
The true ballot harvesters are the ones who are on the payroll. They're the ones who go door to door registering people, requesting an absentee ballot on their behalf, and going back to their home to "help" them fill it out once it arrives. Drop boxes only made the illegal harvesting schemes more efficient in 2020 elections.