A signature audit of the results of the presidential election in a key county in Georgia confirmed that there was no fraud, the third review to confirm that the president-elect Joe BidenMichigan Mayor Joe Biden criticizes Facebook posts suggesting rebellion: Trump report appoints incumbent SEC president Roisman Biden Interior to discuss environmental injustice with tribal leaders MORE won Peach State in November.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said in a press release that the review in Cobb County, which Biden won by more than 14 percentage points, found that the election board “had a rate 99.99% accuracy in performing correct signature verification procedures “.
The signature audit of the votes cast followed a statewide manual count of votes and a subsequent automatic count that also affirmed Biden’s victory in Peach’s state. President TrumpDonald Trump Trump calls for end to “religious persecution around the world” on 850th anniversary of Thomas Becket’s death Michael Cohen’s interview raises questions after he mentions “Tony Meatballs and Big Minty,” friends of the prison, against Democrats and Republicans who opposed 000 MORE direct payments has made Georgia the main target of its claims that fraud and widespread voter irregularities cost it a second term, although claims for such claims have been dismissed for lack of evidence and permanence.
“The Secretary of State’s office has always focused on calling balls and strikes in elections and in this case three strikes against election fraud claims and they are out,” Raffensperger said. “We conducted a state hand count that reaffirmed the initial account and a machine count at the request of the Trump campaign that also reaffirmed the original account. This audit belies the only credible allegations of the Trump campaign against the force of the Georgia Signature Matching Processes “.
Raffensperger first announced the Cobb County Signature Audit on Dec. 14 for allegations of process failures, but the review found that there were no fraudulent absentee votes with a 99% confidence threshold. The audit showed that only two ballots should have been marked, but in neither case was fraud suspected.
Raffensperger’s office partnered with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to conduct the audit.
Cobb County is one of the suburban areas of Atlanta that Biden won and that helped fuel his statewide victory.
The audit results mark Trump’s latest defeat in his effort to subvert the election results, but it will likely make Raffensperger a target once again out of the president’s anger.
Trump has criticized Georgia’s secretary of state and governor. Brian KempGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejects Trump’s calls for primaries Republicans desperate to avoid ground-breaking fight by Trump Electoral College vote back in Georgia at last-minute Republican Senate candidates (R) on what he says are insufficient efforts to investigate his fraud claims, going so far as to promote a potential major challenger to Kemp when he is ready for re-election in 2022.