Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Georgians should be confident in their elections, particularly after reforms passed after the 2020 election.
Raffensperger put out a statement after the Georgia State Election Board on Friday voted 3-2 to pass a measure mandating poll workers perform hand counts on Election Day
“Attorney General Chris Carr has stated that these rules would not withstand a legal challenge, and I have worked every day to strengthen Georgia’s election law to ensure our elections remain safe, secure, and free,” Raffensperger said in a statement.
“Georgia voters can be confident that the reforms we’ve enacted since 2020 and have defended in court from frivolous attacks by Stacy Abrams will ensure only American citizens vote in our elections,” Raffensperger added. “Our reforms have made Georgia elections the safest in the nation and I work every day to keep it that way.”
Separately, the Democratic Party of Georgia dismissed the elections board members who voted for the measure as three right-wing members.
“Experts and non-partisan officials across Georgia have warned that this eleventh-hour election rule change will inject chaos, confusion and uncertainty into our elections – but that is exactly the outcome that Donald Trump’s three ‘pit bulls’ for ‘victory’ on the State Election Board want,” U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Georgia, said in a statement. “By passing this new rule, the board’s MAGA majority is working on Trump’s behalf to sow enough doubt in our electoral process to allow him to fraudulently claim victory should he lose – just as he did in 2020. Georgia Democrats won’t stand by while pro-Trump election deniers try to silence the voices of Georgians. We will continue fighting to ensure that it is voters who decide this election.”
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