A signature audit of the presidential election results in a major Georgia county confirmed that there was no fraud, the third review to confirm that the president-elect Joe Biden
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Georgian Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said in a press release that the Cobb County review, which Biden won by more than 14 percentage points, concluded that the electoral council had “an accuracy rate of 99 , 99% in the execution of correct signature verification procedures “.
The ballot signature audit followed a statewide manual recount of votes and a subsequent automatic recount that also confirmed Biden’s victory in the state of Peach. President Trump
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“The Secretary of State’s office has always been focused on calling for balls and strikes in elections and, in this case, three strikes against allegations of electoral fraud and they are out,” said Raffensperger. “We conducted a statewide manual recount that reaffirmed the initial count, and an automatic recount at the request of the Trump campaign that also reaffirmed the original count. This audit refutes the only credible claims that the Trump campaign had against the strength of Georgia’s signature matching processes. ”
Raffensperger first announced the signature correspondence audit for Cobb County on December 14 on allegations of failure in the process, but the review found “no fraudulent absentee ballots” with a 99% confidence limit. The audit found that only two ballots should be flagged, but there was no suspicion of fraud in either case.
Raffensperger’s office joined the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to conduct the audit.
Cobb County is one of several suburban areas in Atlanta that Biden conquered and helped fuel his state 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 for the president’s ire.
Trump criticized the secretary of state and the governor of Georgia. Brian Kemp
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