On Nov. 6, Georgia secretary of State Ben Raffensperger held a news conference in Atlanta.
Georgia has a lot of attention in the 2020 election. The state has confirmed 1,736 double voting felonies, but not a single cheater has been charged, raising concerns that election fraud will continue in the crucial upcoming Senate race.
According to Joe state election officials, most double-balloters are Democrats who cast their postal ballots by mail or ballot box and then vote in person on election day. That’s a felony under state law.
Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, had the highest crime rate, with many people casting a second ballot with the permission of poll workers, officials said.
RealClearInvestigations, an American website that focuses on investigative journalism, knows that none of the cases have been referred to the state attorney general for a criminal investigation, although the number of suspected double voting felons is the highest in the state’s history.
Katie Byrd, a spokeswoman for Georgia attorney General Chris Carr, said: “To date, the office has received no referrals for dual-vote cases related to the June 2020 primary or the November 2020 election.”
That directly contradicts a promise made last month by Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state: “Prosecuting those who try to undermine our elections is within the full bounds of the law.”
Some local officials in Joe State had hoped that at least some dual voters would be prosecuted, as an example to deter other cheaters from committing fraud ahead of next month’s second round of senate elections.
“I am very disappointed with the lack of enforcement of our electoral law.” Dennis Brown, the Republican governor of Forsyth County, said that “if something is not done soon, we will get the same result” in the Senate elections in January.
Under Joe state law, double voting is a felony punishable by one to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $100,000.
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