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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said Sunday that claims astir ballot integrity from Republicans volition “really hurt” turnout for his party.
Raffensperger had already pushed backmost connected a claim from fellow Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene astir a Northern Georgia “voter’s printed ballot” being “changed from their selections made on” a Dominion Voting Systems machine in the interrogation connected NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” with Chris Stirewalt.
Stirewalt noted that “some people, including those successful your ain party, don't privation … don't hold with that, and they're pushing these kinds of stories.”
“What bash you accidental to them, who are pushing this kinda worldly retired there, present successful the eve of the election?” Stirewalt asked Raffensperger.
“Well, astatine the extremity of the day, if you commencement [spreading] … stories similar that, each you’re gonna bash is to … we’ll truly wounded our turnout connected our side,” Raffensperger said. “And I'm a blimpish Republican, truthful I don't cognize wherefore they bash that … self-defeating.”
As the predetermination has inched closer, erstwhile President Trump’s denial of the 2020 predetermination results has made its mode backmost into the headlines. Trump notably called Raffensperger pursuing the election, asking him to find implicit 11,000 votes that would person overturned President Biden’s triumph successful the Peach State.
“When you get precocious marks by the Heritage Foundation, you know, they're giving america a apical ranking, that means that we're doing the close things,” Raffensperger said successful the interrogation Sunday.
Trump is currently leading Vice President Harris successful the conflict for the White House successful Georgia, up by 1.6 percent according to an mean of polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.
The Hill has reached retired to Greene’s bureau and the Republican National Committee.
"The mendacious assertion that voting machines tin power votes has been repeatedly debunked,” a spokesperson for Dominion said successful a connection emailed to The Hill Sunday, adding that “as some authorities and section predetermination authorities person confirmed” the incidental Greene described “was owed to elector error.”
NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which besides owns The Hill. Updated astatine 1:55 p.m. EDT
