JUST IN: Brad Raffensperger’s Office Admits To Faulty Handling Of Ballots In 2020

The office of the Secretary of State in Georgia, which is responsible for elections, admitted that there was faulty handling of ballots back in the 2020 election. The admission was directed to an accusation made by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her former husband. The Republican Congresswoman revealed that “My then husband, Perry Greene showed up to vote and was told he already voted by absentee ballot but did NOT and NEVER requested an absentee ballot.”

She also added that, “[t]here was a line of people that he stood with that had the same thing happen to them. They all went to vote in person but were told they already voted by absentee, but none of them actually did! We told this story and were both called liars, until we FOIA’d the documents.”

There was a line of people that he stood with that had the same thing happen to them.

They all went to vote in person but were told they already voted by absentee, but none of them actually did!

We told this story and were both called liars, until we FOIA’d the documents.
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— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 16, 2023

“The information showed that in fact, Perry never requested an absentee ballot, never turned one in, and was forced to surrender an absentee ballot he never requested and never filled out and never turned in so that he could vote in person in the general election of 2020. The fraud was in the Secretary of State website. It showed an absentee ballot had been turned in (in his name) but he had never turned one in,” wrote Representative Greene.

The information showed that in fact, Perry never requested an absentee ballot, never turned one in, and was forced to surrender an absentee ballot he never requested and never filled out and never turned in so that he could vote in person in the general election of 2020.

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— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 16, 2023

Perry Greene backed up his ex-wife’s account.

Now a spokesperson for Georgia Secretary of State’s office, Mike Hassinger, has admitted that the “audit logs from the voter registration system show that a county worker took action to issue a ballot for the voter at 4:03PM on October 23, 2020. They subsequently canceled that ballot. Then, 5 minutes later at 4:08PM, they issued another ballot to the voter and successfully checked in the voter to allow him to vote advanced in-person.” Hassinger chalked this incident up to a “likely poll worker error.”

Hassinger also said, “[A]ccording to our records, this is obviously a county-level error, which the county addressed publicly in their previous statements. Floyd County made many mistakes during the 2020 election which is why our office called for their director to resign.” This “many mistakes” line suggests that Greene was not the only one who had ballot issues.

Back in December 2020, Gabriel Sterling, an aide to the secretary of state, found out that someone had been stopped from illegally voting.  That person was the previous owner of his house who had requested a ballot using Sterling’s own address. “That would be illegal voting,” admitted Sterling, who in the same vein denied there was widespread election fraud.

Such confirmation of problems with the 2020 election in Georgia takes on new relevance given that former President Trump and many of his legal team were indicted by a Fulton County District Attorney for refusing “to accept that Trump lost [in 2020], and they knowingly and willfully joined in a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of Trump.” One possible defense would be to show why election skepticism in Georgia was warranted and how the activities undertaken by Trump and his allies were not unlawful.