Why Georgia Should Run Off Brad Raffensperger
He allowed the November election debacle — and the January runoffs could be more of the same.
by David Catron
December 16, 2020, 12:00 AM
Brad Raffensperger may well be responsible for creating the most havoc in Georgia since Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman visited the state in 1864. Because the balance of power in Washington has come down to a couple of seats in the U.S. Senate currently held by Georgia Republicans, it’s difficult to exaggerate the importance of the January 5 runoffs or how badly our feckless secretary of state is likely to mismanage them. His ineptitude during the general election produced the rapid deployment of Republican attorneys who have bombarded Raffensperger with lawsuits in an effort to prevent the runoff from devolving into the kind of debacle that he presided over in November.
The most recent lawsuit against Raffensperger and the Georgia State Election Board was filed December 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia by the Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Perdue for Senate, and Georgians for Kelly Loeffler. It challenges the secretary’s new absentee ballot verification rules and the amount of access provided to poll watchers for purposes of observing the signature matching process. The complaint questions the constitutionality of the process created last March when Raffensperger negotiated a consent decree with the Democratic Party whereby an already lax signature validation process was rendered less secure:
Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court immediately (i) declare that the current Georgia signature matching process is unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution; (ii) order Defendants to implement signature review of all absentee ballots by three reviewers, including providing meaningful public observation from at least one person from each political party represented by the candidates; (iii) order Defendants to implement election safeguards to require ballots with mismatched signatures as determined by reviewers to be segregated for additional review consistent with procedures for rejected ballots.
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