Online surveys show that nearly all Georgians who voted for President Donald Trump (R) in the presidential election will vote in the upcoming U.S. Senate runoff. However, many people do not trust the vote count.
The survey, which began on Dec. 7 and ended on Dec. 9, involved nearly 2,000 Trump voters. Among them, as many as 97% intend to vote in the January 5 U.S. Senate runoff.
In the runoff, incumbent Republican U.S. Senator David Perdue will compete with Democrat Jon Ossoff; incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler will compete with Democrat Raphael Warnock. Both races will determine control of the Senate for both parties.
However, only 16 percent of respondents believe their votes will be accurately counted; nearly 40 percent said they do not believe their votes will be accurately counted, and the remaining 44 percent said they are unsure.
The majority of those who decided to vote chose to go to the polls in person on Jan. 5 or during early voting; only 13 percent said they would vote by mail, and 2 percent were undecided.
Several respondents said they would change their voting method from mail to in-person after the Nov. 3 election, citing distrust of mail-in ballots. A few others said they could not even trust early in-person voting and would therefore vote in person on election day.
One respondent said, “I am very reluctant to vote again without any change in the voting method, but I can’t not vote. I voted early in the Nov. 3 election, but my ballot appears to have been fraudulently processed, so I’m going to vote on Election Day to see if it’s different.” Many of the comments reflected the same concerns.
Mistrust of the presidential election results was even higher among respondents, with nearly 91 percent of them not believing the votes were accurately counted.
Attorney Jeff Williams said, “As long as there are Dominion voting machines and corrupt officials, the fraud will continue.”
Susan W., a registered nurse, said she will vote in the runoff, but if the Democratic candidate wins, she will “make sure there’s no need to vote again.
On Dec. 4, the Trump campaign filed a lawsuit in the state of Joe. The lawsuit identified multiple groups of illegal voters, including 2,560 felons; 66,247 underage voters; 2,423 unregistered voters; 1,043 people registered at post office boxes; 4,926 people registered in other states who voted in Joe; 395 people who voted in two states; 15,700 votes from people who moved out of state before the election; and 40,279 votes from people who moved to a new county but had not yet re-registered; and 30,000 to 40,000 absentee ballots that were not properly matched and certified with signatures.
Election law expert J. Christian Adams told the Epoch Times that state legislatures, including Joe State, have made structural changes to their voting procedures that have left the election system biased and more open to fraud; as states increasingly use mail-in ballots, voter disenfranchisement is likely to grow in tandem.
He also said there would be a lot of resistance to changing the mass vote-by-mail model back to an in-person voting model.
“Because (Democrats) view any effort greater than zero as voter suppression,” Adams said, “so if they have to leave the house, stand in line, fill out a mail-in ballot, register early, or do anything that would have seemed normal 20 years ago to vote, they call it voter suppression. ”
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