Washington Post: Georgia prosecutor investigating link between Lindsey Graham and Brad Raffensperger

Washington Post: Georgia prosecutor investigating link between Lindsey Graham and Brad Raffensperger

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Citing a person familiar with the investigation, the newspaper reported that Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis will assess Graham’s call to Raffensperger after the election.

The call will be “analyzed,” the individual familiar with the investigation told the Post, warning that many details of the call and whether Graham broke the law remain unclear.

Raffensperger told the Post on Nov. 16 that, in a conversation a few days earlier, Graham raised doubts about Georgia’s signature matching law and also suggested the possibility that biased voters could count ballots with inconsistent signatures.
Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who was then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also asked if Raffensperger could discard all ballots sent by county post that showed unmatched higher subscription rates, the Republican Secretary of State told the Post on era. Graham denied Raffensperger’s claims, which remained firm in his account.

There were no credible allegations of any voting problems that would have impacted the election, as claimed by dozens of judges, governors and election officials, the Electoral College, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a statement to CNN, Graham’s spokesman, Kevin Bishop, called the charges that Graham’s call was inadequate “ridiculous”.

“Senator Graham was asking about how the signature verification process worked,” said Bishop. “He never asked the Secretary of State to disqualify a vote cast by anyone. The timing of this is also quite curious. It seems to be a less than transparent effort to marginalize anyone who helps President Trump.”

News of Willis’ decision to examine the connection between Graham and Raffensperger comes as the South Carolina Republican serves as a judge on Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate.
In addition, CNN reported on Monday that Raffensperger’s office had initiated an investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the state’s election results, including a phone call in which Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find” votes after his defeat for then President-elect Joe Biden, according to an audio recording first released by The Washington Post and later obtained by CNN.

A source familiar with the Georgia Secretary of State’s investigation told CNN on Friday that they are not investigating Graham’s connection.

A spokesman for Willis told the Post on Friday that the office was investigating all efforts to improperly influence the election administration. Willis announced on Wednesday that his office would investigate potentially criminal attempts to affect the state’s election results, including Trump’s calls to Raffensperger and the state’s top election investigator, the newspaper reported.

CNN’s Jason Morris, Sarah Fortinsky, Chandelis Duster and Devan Cole contributed to this report.

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