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After the election, Raffensperger's fellow Republicans, Georgia's U.S. Senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, issued a joint statement accusing Raffensperger of unspecified "failures" and calling for him to resign. [33] [34] Perdue and Loeffler offered no evidence in support of their claims, which they made after pressure from Trump, who had promoted conspiracy theories about the election and falsely claimed it was rigged. [33] [34] [35] State elections officials and other Republican leaders noted that there was no evidence of wrongdoing in connection with the election. [34] Both Perdue and Loeffler were up for re-election but failed to achieve a majority of the vote, triggering a runoff election in Georgia against their Democratic opponents, which took place on January 5, 2021, and determined party control of the Senate. [33] [34] Raffensperger rejected the calls for his resignation, saying, "As a Republican, I am concerned about Republicans keeping the U.S. Senate. I recommend that Senators Loeffler and Perdue start focusing on that." [33] Raffensperger added, "If I was Senator Perdue, I'd be irritated I was in a runoff. And both Senators and I are all unhappy with the potential outcome for our President." [33]

Under pressure from fellow Republicans, Raffensperger ordered a statewide hand recount/audit of all five million votes in the Georgia presidential race, in which Biden led Trump by approximately 14,000 votes. Critics, including the voting rights group Coalition for Good Governance, described Raffensperger's decision to go forward with the hand recount being motivated by the political pressure he had received from Trump, and said it was not contemplated by Georgia law. [35] [36] [37] Raffensperger denied this, [35] [36] [37] although he did say that fellow Republicans were pressuring him to find ways to exclude legal ballots. [38] Raffensperger said that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham pressured him in a call to throw out postal ballots favoring Biden. Though Graham denied the allegations, a separate Republican [39] election official who was also present in the call, Gabriel Sterling, confirmed Raffensperger's statement. [40] Doug Collins, a Republican congressman from Georgia who lost his race and oversaw Trump's efforts in Georgia, falsely claimed fraud in the Georgia election, prompting Raffensperger, typically known for his mild manner, to call Collins a "liar" and "charlatan" for his rhetoric. [38] [41] [5] The hand recount reaffirmed Biden's victory, with Biden receiving 2.47 million votes and Trump receiving 2.46 million votes, a margin of 12,670 votes (0.25%). On November 20, Raffensperger certified the final vote totals, and Georgia Governor Brian Kemp issued the formal certification of the state's slate of electors. [32] Trump continued to promote false claims about the electoral process after certification; some Trump supporters harassed or threatened Raffensperger, his wife, and Raffensperger aide Sterling, the state voting system implementation manager, including death threats. [42] Sterling publicly called on Trump to condemn the acts and "Stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence." [43] [44]

In March 2021, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a bill, which was signed into law by Kemp, that removed the position of state election board chair from the Georgia Secretary of State's duties. The law handed control of the state election board chair to the state legislature. [45]

Trump–Raffensperger phone call

A recording of an hour-long phone call between President Donald Trump, Raffensperger, and several other state and federal officials on January 2, 2021, was obtained by The Washington Post and released the following day. [46] [47] On the call, Trump pressured Raffensperger to change the election results for the state of Georgia to make him the winner; Trump told Raffensperger, "I just want to find 11,780 votes." Raffensperger repeatedly rebuffed Trump's attempts to pressure him. [48] [49] [50]

After the taped call was published, Democratic congressional leaders asked the FBI to investigate the call and probe whether Trump had "engaged in solicitation of, or conspiracy to commit, a number of election crimes." [51] Journalist Carl Bernstein, who in 1972 broke the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon, called the Trump–Raffensperger scandal "far worse than Watergate" and said that in any other presidency it would result in impeachment, conviction, and bipartisan demands for the president's resignation. [52] In an interview, Raffensperger said that Trump "did most of the talking" on the call and noted that Trump's voter fraud allegations were "just plain wrong". [53] In a letter to Congress on January 6, 2021, Raffensperger gave a point-by-point refutation of Trump's false election claims. [54] [55] [56] While some House Republicans tried to defend Trump's Georgia call, Democrats began drafting a censure resolution. [57] On January 6, 2021, days after the call, a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol while the Congress was counting the electoral votes to formalize Biden's victory. After the attack, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached Trump for incitement of insurrection. The article of impeachment adopted by the House notes the Raffensperger call, stating: "President Trump's conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to 'find' enough votes to overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so." [58] [59]

Raffensperger testified in public hearings before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on June 21, 2022. [60]

2022 election

Raffensperger was reelected to a second term in 2022. Trump had endorsed a primary challenger Jody Hice, a supporter of his election fraud claims. [61] [62] Facing punitive opposition by the former president, death threats, harassment, and having to confront misinformation and lies asserted by an opponent, Raffensperger explained his motivation to run for reelection: "If the good walk off the field and leave the field to the bad, then the bad wins." [63]

Raffensperger fended off his primary challengers, ultimately winning the 50% of the votes needed to avoid a runoff. He defeated the Democratic Party nominee, Democratic state representative Bee Nguyen, in the November general election. [64]

A week after the Senate runoff election he called for the Assembly to end the runoff system in Georgia, one of only two states with such a system. [65]

2024 election

In early 2023, Georgia's state legislature denied a $25 million request by Raffensperger to implement the 2022 security update for Dominion Voting Systems machines before the 2024 elections, though the QR codes will be eliminated by 2026. [66] According to POLITICO in June of 2023, Raffensperger insisted that the cybersecurity flaws identified in voting software were not significant and that no update was needed since the hackers would need physical access to the machines, over the objection of some cybersecurity experts who insist that a voter-verifiable print-out of the ballot and updating to the latest software are important steps that should have been taken for security reasons and to bolster confidence in the final tally. [67]

On July 29, 2024, Raffensberger added another way to cancel a voter's registration through an online portal, which groups like Fair Fight Action worried would be abused. [68] On August 5, cybersecurity researcher Jason Parker disclosed a vulnerability in Georgia’s voter cancellation portal that allowed users to bypass the requirement for a driver’s license number, enabling the submission of voter registration cancellations with minimal, publicly available information. The discovery drew attention to weaknesses in the system and the importance of continued efforts to secure election infrastructure. [69] [70]

After an administrative law judge disqualified Claudia De la Cruz and Cornel West from the ballot due to their electors not registering in their own name, Raffensperger overruled the judge on August 29, 2024 and put them on the ballot. It is the first time since 1946 with more than four candidates on the ballot. [71] On September 12, 2024, a judge disqualified both West and De la Cruz from running for president in Georgia. [72] On September 25, the Georgia Supreme Court unanimously confirmed the ruling keeping votes for De la Cruz and West from counting even though Raffensperger intended to keep both on the ballot saying there was not enough time to reprint the ballots. [73] Republicans had been working to get West and De la Cruz on the ballot believing they would take votes away from Kamala Harris, while Democrats had been working to keep them off citing how their presence benefits Trump. [71]

Electoral history

Brad Raffensperger
Brad Raffensperger 2022.jpg
Raffensperger in 2022
29th Secretary of State of Georgia
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 14, 2019
2018 Georgia Secretary of State election Republican primary results [74]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Brad Raffensperger 185,386 34.96%
Republican David Belle Isle 151,328 28.54%
Republican Joshua McKoon 112,11321.14%
Republican Buzz Brockway 81,49215.37%
Total votes530,319 100.00%
2018 Georgia Secretary of State election Republican primary runoff results [75]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Brad Raffensperger 331,127 61.74%
Republican David Belle Isle205,22338.26%
Total votes536,350 100.00%
2018 Georgia Secretary of State election [76]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Brad Raffensperger 1,906,588 49.09%
Democratic John Barrow 1,890,310 48.67%
Libertarian Smythe DuVal86,6962.23%
Total votes3,883,594 100.0%
2018 Georgia Secretary of State runoff election [77]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Brad Raffensperger 764,855 51.89%
Democratic John Barrow 709,04948.11%
Total votes1,473,904 100.0%
2022 Georgia Secretary of State election Republican primary results [78]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Brad Raffensperger (incumbent) 611,616 52.37
Republican Jody Hice 389,44733.34
Republican David Belle Isle103,2728.84
Republican TJ Hudson63,6465.45
Total votes1,167,981 100.00%
2022 Georgia Secretary of State election [79]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Brad Raffensperger (incumbent)2,081,24153.23
Democratic Bee Nguyen 1,719,92243.99
Libertarian Ted Metz108,8842.78
Total votes

Personal life

Raffensperger and his wife, Tricia, have three children and two grandchildren. [3] Raffensperger is a member of the North Point Community Church. [80]

Raffensperger has four siblings. Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Raffensperger has a brother, Ron, who "works for China", but Raffensperger's only brother is not named Ron and does not work for or in China. [81] There is a Huawei executive named Ron Raffensperger, but they are not related. [82]

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