{"id":39267,"date":"2020-12-01T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=39267"},"modified":"2020-12-01T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T13:02:38","slug":"why-is-georgias-gov-raffensperger-suddenly-concerned-about-illegal-out-of-state-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=39267","title":{"rendered":"Why is Georgia&#8217;s Gov. Raffensperger suddenly concerned about illegal out-of-state votes?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Georgia&#8217;s Raffensperger Suddenly Concerned About &#8220;Illegal&#8221; Out Of State Votes<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) &#8211; who President Trump last Thursday called an &#8220;enemy of the people&#8221; for allegedly making some type of &#8220;deal&#8221; with Democratic operative Stacey Abrams over ballot harvesting &#8211; said on Monday that\u00a0<strong>he&#8217;s suddenly concerned with progressive groups trying to sign up new voters in advance of a Jan. 5 Senate runoff\u00a0<\/strong>which could flip the GOP-controlled chamber blue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=7PGrpoxI\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=7PGrpoxI\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=KszR0ruA 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=KszR0ruA 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=KszR0ruA 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=KszR0ruA 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=KszR0ruA 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg?itok=7PGrpoxI 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/raffens_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"de385b18-9d43-4592-90e8-6de93d24af7b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These third-party groups have a responsibility to not encourage illegal voting. If they do so, they will be held responsible,&#8221; said Raffensperger, who added that\u00a0<strong>his office is allegedly investigating efforts by America Votes, Vote Forward and the New Georgia Project\u00a0<\/strong>to encourage people living outside Georgia to register to vote in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger also said his office has launched\u00a0<strong>several investigations<\/strong>\u00a0into accusations of fraud committed during the November election.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, President Trump\u00a0<strong>slammed Raffensperger<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; telling reporters: &#8220;<strong>You&#8217;re not allowed to harvest<\/strong>, but I understand the secretary of state, who is really an enemy of the people, the secretary of state, and whether he&#8217;s Republican or not, this man, what he&#8217;s done, supposedly he made a deal and you&#8217;ll have to check this, where she is allowed to harvest but in other areas they&#8217;re not allowed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1332099868760956933&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fgeorgias-raffensperger-suddenly-concerned-about-illegal-out-state-votes&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1332099868760956933\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Stacey Abrams &#8211; the failed GA gubernatorial candidate who failed to concede &#8211; has been credited with helping to register 800,000 people to vote in Georgia for the 2020 election, though she claims it wasn&#8217;t done through ballot harvesting, a process by which an individual will collect ballots from voters and turn them in.<\/p>\n<p>Biden &#8216;won&#8217; Georgia by 12,670 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>the odds of Democrats gaining control of the Senate are currently at 29%<\/strong>\u00a0according to PredictIt.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/georgias-raffensperger-suddenly-concerned-about-illegal-out-state-votes\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/georgias-raffensperger-suddenly-concerned-about-illegal-out-state-votes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia&#8217;s Raffensperger Suddenly Concerned About &#8220;Illegal&#8221; Out Of State Votes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}