Governor Kemp may have an opportunity to make real progress on election reform in Georgia.Last friday November 20 he called for the Secretary of State Raffensberger to audit the absentee ballot envelopes for signature match with applications.He also called for election law reform
Would have been better if Governor Kemp had acted on November 12 when Trump Recount Chair Doug Collins and GOP state chair David Shafer wrote Raffensberger asking for a review of the signatures on absentee ballot applications and envelopes.
Why did Governor Kemp wait until AFTER certification to ask for an audit of the absentee envelopes? In 2018 3.5% of the absentee votes were thrown out for not matching signatures and not being valid. In 2020 with 4 times as many absentee ballots only 0.3% have been rejected.
The difference in absentee ballot acceptance from 2018 to 2020 is about 39,000 votes. Biden’s entire margin in Georgia is 12,670 so if the normal absentee ballot rejection rate had been implemented it would be more than three times Biden’s margin of winning.
Kemp now has 3 big challenges.Get Secretary of State to undertake audit of absentee ballot envelopes. Call on State Election Board to undertake a full audit. Call a special session of the Georgia legislature to fix the loopholes before the Democrats try to steal Senate seats.
Governor Kemp’s next steps will tell us if his friday statement on election problems was a real change of heart or just public relations to try to appease the many angry Georgia Republicans. We will be watching.
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