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BumRushDaShow

(143,063 posts)
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 06:43 AM Nov 4

Georgia election officials defend voting system against barrage of false claims, conspiracy theories

Source: CBS News

November 3, 2024 / 7:26 PM EST


More than 70 million people have already voted in the 2024 election, and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, knows what he'll say to people who will inevitably challenge the results. "I'm sorry that your candidate lost. But the rules are the rules. The law is the law. And the count is the count," Sterling said.

As of Friday, more than half of registered voters in Georgia had already voted, according to data from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office.

Sterling and Raffensperger were among the Republicans pushing back against claims of fraud in 2020, when Georgia — where President Biden won — was at the center of a scheme to overthrow the election results. In a state where Republicans controlled every branch of government, Raffensperger stood up to former President Donald Trump and stood by the state's results.

"I work for the people of Georgia. I respond and I work for the voters of Georgia," Raffensperger told 60 Minutes in an interview. "My job is to run a fair, honest, accurate election."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-election-officials-defend-system-after-trump-fraud-claims-60-minutes/

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Georgia election officials defend voting system against barrage of false claims, conspiracy theories (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 4 OP
Are we in for record high... BobsYourUncle Nov 4 #1
In the past BumRushDaShow Nov 4 #2
Thanks for this info. BobsYourUncle Nov 4 #3
There are a lot of "deep dives" out there on turnout BumRushDaShow Nov 4 #4
I hope the assholes that support trump on the election board agree mdbl Nov 4 #5

BobsYourUncle

(143 posts)
1. Are we in for record high...
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 08:02 AM
Nov 4

of voter participation this time? Isn’t a percentage over fifty higher than the national average for presidential elections?

I wonder how many other states have such a large percentage of registered voters already voted (as of last Friday)? Here in Delaware there remained two early voting days— not Monday— plus November fifth.. I’m not sure what percentage has voted but it seems everyone I’ve spoken with has early voted.

BumRushDaShow

(143,063 posts)
2. In the past
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 08:56 AM
Nov 4

the typical was well over 60% (although with some segments unable to vote). The low 60% range seems to be have been holding for the past 20 years or so, with the 2020 turnout up from that.



https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/record-high-turnout-in-2020-general-election.html

BobsYourUncle

(143 posts)
3. Thanks for this info.
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 10:48 AM
Nov 4

Color me guilty of wishful thinking. I’ve got the piled-higher-and-deeper in statistics but not the kind required for polling.

BumRushDaShow

(143,063 posts)
4. There are a lot of "deep dives" out there on turnout
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 12:04 PM
Nov 4

But not all of them have something that has a graph that can easily be posted (and I don't feel like doing a screen cap of).

This year might be interesting because they have gone far beyond what Obama had done back in 2008 to get the turnout up.

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