The letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner on Wednesday, was signed by 531 Republicans ranging from grassroots activists, to precinct leaders, to delegates to the Georgia GOP convention, which is due to take place this weekend.
The letter centers around a request for an “independent forensic audit to take place through the convening of a Special Session.” The letter was sent to Kemp, who is also a Republican.
“We believe that anyone who has a problem with a statewide forensic audit in Georgia has something to hide,” the letter reads. “Our goals are simple: we want to discover the underlying problems that occurred last year and ensure that we never make those same mistakes again.“
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When contacted about the letter, Kemp's office told the Washington Examiner that he himself doesn't "have the constitutional or statutory authority to conduct an audit of the 2020 election."
Trump lost Georgia and its 16 electoral votes in his defeat to President Joe Biden. Multiple tallies of the votes and an audit of absentee ballot signatures found no widespread fraud and affirmed the results. Republican election officials have repeatedly confirmed the results, though Trump insisted on casting doubt on the legitimacy of Biden's victory.
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Kemp, as well as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, both Republicans, became targets of Trump, who attacked them for their handling of the 2020 election and resisting his efforts to overturn the results.
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The Republicans argue in their letter that“many in Georgia did not have” the “right to know that your vote counted” because “elected officials in both parties mishandled the 2020 presidential election, and as a result, the integrity of that election is in question.”
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The letter, which also raises questions about the chain of custody of absentee ballots, was spearheaded by Rep. Vernon Jones, who is running for governor against Kemp, and Debbie Dooley, the founder of the Atlanta Tea Party. Jones has already vowed to pursue an audit of the 2020 election if elected to the governorship in 2022.
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The letter also mentions the GOP-led Arizona Senate's forensic audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, which has garnered criticism from county officials and Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs and prompted concerns from the U.S. Justice Department. Critics point out that the results from two previous election machine audits, conducted for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, showed no irregularities in the county's 2020 election. An additional recount of a sample of ballots did not turn up any problems.
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The Georgia Republicans’ letter specifically cites a May 12 letter from Arizona Senate President Karen Fann to Maricopa Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers in which she stated, “The audit team has encountered a significant number of instances in which there is a disparity between the actual number of ballots continued in a batch and the total on the pink report slip accompanying the batch.”
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