Georgia secretary of state slams politicians over unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has lambasted the US politicians over misleading people via unsubstantiated allegations about systemic voter fraud.
Raffensperger made the comments in an interview with The Hill on Wednesday.
Although he didn't refer to the name of US President Donald Trump, it was obvious that he is infuriated by the comments the Republican president has made on fraud.
Raffensperger also attacked Rep. Doug Collins and other Republicans over creating a dangerous environment against him due to his refusal to accept the existence of systemic fraud in Georgia's election process.
“There’s just people who are really angry and they’re being spun up,” he said. “It’s really the spinners that should be ashamed for playing with people’s emotions. Politicians of both sides should never play with people’s emotions. It’s one thing to motivate people, I get that. But to spin people up and play with their emotions, it’s emotional abuse and they ought to grow up and start acting with integrity.”
Asked about being labelled as a "Republican in name only" by Trump, he refused to directly attack the president.
“I’m a Republican, I’m a conservative one, and I don’t like the idea that President Trump is not going to win,” Raffensperger noted. “But at the end of the day, I want every voter to know we’re going to do our job and make sure every legal vote is counted.”
During the past two weeks, Raffensperger has found himself at the center of a political storm after Trump rejected the results in Georgia and claimed that Democrats have stolen the election from him.
Georgia's Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler even asked Raffensperger to resign, accusing him of ignoring corruption in the election process.
Also, in an interview with CBS on Tuesday, Raffensperger announced that Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator and one of the closest allies of Trump on Capitol Hill, had called him on Friday to pressure him to discard the legal mail-in ballots in Georgia.
On Friday, the mainstream US media projected the Democratic nominee Joe Biden as the winner in Georgia after he managed to grab the state's 16 electoral votes.
At the present moment, Biden leads Trump in Georgia by nearly 14,000 popular votes, making him the first Democratic presidential nominee in nearly 30 years to win the once-reliably Republican state.
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