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When Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger warned a video of immigrants voting with multiple IDs was fake and likely a Russian disinformation effort — an assessment backed up by US intelligence agencies — Republican skeptics were unmoved.
Kylie Jane Kremer, a Trump backer who helped organize the January 6, 2021, rally on the Ellipse, posted on social media that if Raffensperger and another top official in the office, Gabriel Sterling, said it was false, “I don’t believe them.”
After US intelligence agencies confirmed what [Georgia] state officials had suspected [that the fake video was created by Russia], she started reposting criticisms of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
In the final weekend before Election Day, the Georgia GOP claimed Fulton County, home of Atlanta, was “illegally” accepting absentee ballots at election offices (not ballot drop boxes). The secretary of state’s office said the plans were legal, and a judge agreed, allowing the weekend hours to continue.
The claim that ballots were being illegally accepted, meanwhile, already had legs.
Janice Johnston, one of the conservative members of the Georgia State Election Board, ... seeming to take aim at the weekend absentee ballot returns, claiming that “Chaos, confusion, delay” were being imposed upon Georgia voters.
When a CNN reporter visited a local election office in Fulton County over the weekend, there were no signs of chaos, just a few people returning absentee ballots.
Kylie Jane Kremer, a Trump backer who helped organize the January 6, 2021, rally on the Ellipse, posted on social media that if Raffensperger and another top official in the office, Gabriel Sterling, said it was false, “I don’t believe them.”
After US intelligence agencies confirmed what [Georgia] state officials had suspected [that the fake video was created by Russia], she started reposting criticisms of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
In the final weekend before Election Day, the Georgia GOP claimed Fulton County, home of Atlanta, was “illegally” accepting absentee ballots at election offices (not ballot drop boxes). The secretary of state’s office said the plans were legal, and a judge agreed, allowing the weekend hours to continue.
The claim that ballots were being illegally accepted, meanwhile, already had legs.
Janice Johnston, one of the conservative members of the Georgia State Election Board, ... seeming to take aim at the weekend absentee ballot returns, claiming that “Chaos, confusion, delay” were being imposed upon Georgia voters.
When a CNN reporter visited a local election office in Fulton County over the weekend, there were no signs of chaos, just a few people returning absentee ballots.
