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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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
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.
