Georgia Finds Some Dead People Voting Via Absentee Ballots

Written By BlabberBuzz | Tuesday, 28 December 2021 10:45 PM
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Four Georgia absentee ballots in the 2020 presidential election were cast in the names of dead voters, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Election auditors discovered that all four absentee ballots had been delivered by relatives, the Journal-Constitution reported Monday.

The State Election Board referred the cases to the attorney general's office this month after investigators examined dozens of claims, the newspaper said. The probe proved that most of the ballots in question had been delivered by voters who were alive.

Former President Donald Trump has said that voter fraud in several battleground states, such as Georgia, cost him the election and resulted in Joe Biden becoming President.

Earlier this month, Trump-backed Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue, the state's former Republican Senator, said he would not have signed the certification of the electoral votes for Biden until claims of voter fraud were investigated.

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"The problems in the 2020 election started long before any votes were cast," Perdue said in a statement to Newsmax. "They started when [Gov.] Brian Kemp caved to [activist] Stacey Abrams and the Democrats, giving them control of our elections."

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Perdue then joined a lawsuit claiming that voter fraud in the state's most populous county affected the 2020 presidential election outcome. The suit does not seek to overturn the results of the election.

Three separate vote counts revealed that Trump lost Georgia by about 12,000 votes.

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Among the four ballots mentioned by the Journal-Constitution, a 74-year-old widow submitted an absentee ballot on behalf of her late husband, who died in September 2020.

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"He was going to vote Republican, and she said, 'Well, I'm going to cancel your ballot because I'm voting Democrat.' It was kind of a joke between them," Barry Bishop, an attorney for Sharon Nelson of Canton, Georgia, told the State Election Board, the Journal-Constitution reported.

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"She received the absentee ballot and carried out his wishes. ... She now realizes that was not the thing to do."

Georgia election officials said such mistakes should result in some action. "Remorse is something we hear a lot, and it's something I appreciate because sometimes we do make these mistakes unknowingly," election board member Anh Le said during a Dec. 14 meeting. "However, the law is what it is."

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Another ballot was offered for the late Augusta voter, whose signature on the absentee ballot envelope matched the handwriting of his mother, who died in October 2020.

There also was a ballot cast by a widow who told investigators she filled out her late husband's ballot because she knew how he wanted to vote. The election board previously found evidence that a Trion, Georgia, woman had submitted an absentee ballot for her husband, who died several months before the election.

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