Reporter : He Yating / Editor: Mei Lan / https://www.ntdtv.com/b5/2020/11/22/a102993036.html / Translation, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Because Georgia's manual recount did not verify the ballot signatures, the Trump legal team strongly questioned that a large number of illegal ballots are still being counted. Governor of Georgia Brian Kemp said on Friday (November 20) that he would postpone the certification of the election result statistics and that he would audit the signatures of absentee votes. However, the Trump team requested another recount and strict signature verification.
On November 20, local time, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said at a press conference that he had urged the state secretary of state to review the signature on the ballot envelope.
Kemp admitted at the press conference that the audit just concluded only looked at the ballots and did not review the signatures of absentee ballot applicants or the signatures on the ballot envelope. To this end, he would urge Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, "Resolve (the public) concerns about signatures."
Kemp said, "It seems simple to conduct a sample audit of the signatures on the absentee voting envelopes and compare them with the signatures on the application and the files of the Secretary of State's Office.
He said that after Georgia conducts a risk-limiting audit of the presidential election, he will sign the certification of the election results.
Earlier that day, Georgia Secretary of State Ravensperger announced that after manual counting, the Democratic candidate Biden had 2.47 million votes in the state, while the current President Trump had 2.46 million votes. Biden won by 12,284 votes.
However, more than a dozen eyewitnesses who signed the sworn testimony said that in the recount process, there were still statistical errors in which Trump's votes were counted by the staff in Biden's name, as well as signs of potential election fraud. For example, several supervisors discovered that a batch of brand new absentee ballots were suspicious. These ballots had no creases and were not sealed, and the ballots were marked "perfectly" and looked like they were filled out uniformly, and these suspicious ballots were absolutely irrelevant. Most of them went to Biden.
Since the mailed ballots and the provisional ballots for in-person voting must be folded before being put into the envelope, it is quite strange that there are no creases.
Trump and his campaign team have repeatedly emphasized that the so-called risk limit audit is meaningless unless the signature on the ballot envelope is checked.
Trump tweeted on November 20, Why did the governor and secretary of state of Georgia refuse to let his team check the signatures of the ballots? He believes that checking the signatures of ballots is likely to reveal the existence of hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots in the state. He asked in a tweet, "Why did they authenticate a meaningless vote count so quickly?"
The Trump legal team has made it clear that this week (from November 23) it will again file a lawsuit against Georgia for alleged large-scale fraud.
The Trump campaign announced on Saturday that it will ask Georgia to recount the votes again, and emphasized that the key is to verify the signatures of voters, otherwise it will only get wrong results.
The Trump team emphasized in a statement issued over the weekend, "We are committed to ensuring that the authorities follow the details of the Georgia Law and the U.S. Constitution in order to count each legal vote."
The statement pointed out that President Trump and his campaign continue to insist that Georgia recount the votes honestly, which must include signature verification and other important safeguards. Without signature verification, all key points will be false and will only be allowed to be illegal again. Votes are counted.
Georgia's law stipulates that in the general election, if the difference between the two parties' votes is less than 0.5%, they can request a recount of votes.
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