Published 19:29 IST, November 11th 2020
'High hurdle': Donald Trump campaign seeks 'hand recount' of 5 million ballots in Georgia
In a letter dispatched by Rep. Collins, Donald Trump’s campaign lead for the recount team in Georgia, and state Rep. Chairman Shafer, republicans alleged fraud.
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Republicans on vember 10 me demands to Georgia’s chief elections officer that Georgia’s nearly 5 million ballots must be “fully hand-counted” to ensure election integrity and rule out “fraud”. request comes after Associated Press declared Biden projected winner who les in Georgia with a razor-thin margin of 12,291 votes le. Pushing unsubstantiated claim of widespre voter fraud on social media, President Trump’s Republican Party demanded a recount in Wisconsin and hand recount in crucial Georgia Senate ruffs, although a recounting ballots hasn’t me a difference in history of US’ statewide election.
“Fraud,” Tyler Zed wrote on Facebook on v. 4, after claims that Dem volunteers were going door-to-door to cure Georgia ballots emerged. Zed shared a screenshot of a tweet from David Litt, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama that depicted him asking for volunteers to cure rejected mail-in ballots in Georgia. As Biden les with an estimated 99 percent vote count in state, Republicans decried fowl, which US National Conference of State Legislatures clarified as signature discrepancy.
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In a letter dispatched by US Rep. Doug Collins, President Donald Trump’s campaign le for recount team in Georgia, and state Republican Party Chairman David Shafer accessed by sources of Associated Press, Republican party asserted “major fraud”. A formal request with Secretary of State Br Raffensperger was me to halt results until 5 million ballots were physically tabulated with hand.
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State of Georgia 'failed'
Trump campaign, which alleged that state of Georgia “failed” initiated a legal blitz in swing states, including state of Arizona where Republicans might contest current vote deficit. Reps could rope in or states where Biden les with a slim margin. Although going by 2016 presidential contest, wherein Wisconsin conducted a statewide recount where Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by more than 20,000 votes, few votes were netted out. Former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker tweeted that 20,000 votes would be 'a high hurdle'. "It will t be easy, but few things worth fighting for are,” he wrote. Moreover, in a heated recount controversy, Republican US Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler called for Raffensperger’s resignation citing practical or auntic evidence of his “wrongdoing” that botched up election as per claims me by Republicans.
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19:31 IST, November 11th 2020