Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said: he is not worried In a new interview, he spoke about election interference from domestic sources.
“I don’t want people to think I’m naive or Pollyannaish about this,” Raffensperger told Politico in an article published Wednesday. “But in many ways, I think Georgia is much further along than other states.”
Raffensperger resisted pressure from former President Trump to overturn the 2020 election by “finding” votes to close the gap with President Biden in the Peach State.
Raffensperger said he and Gov. Brian Kemp (R), who was re-elected in 2022, helped combat misinformation about the 2020 election through campaign campaigns and tours of the state.
“As a Republican, a conservative Republican, I think it's very helpful for me to go out and talk to my fellow conservatives and give them the facts,” he told Politico.
But Raffensperger is clearly concerned about foreign influence in Georgia's elections, calling on the state Legislature to ban foreign campaign financing and create new guardrails against foreign agents. .
“The biggest challenge facing our country now that our borders are open is foreign interference in our campaigns and elections,” Raffensperger said in a press release.
“That is why I am calling on the General Assembly to immediately pass legislation to prohibit foreign financing of elections and campaigns, and to require political consultants and lobbyists representing foreign entities to register and disclose their activities to the state. We are asking them to make it mandatory.”
In an editorial last week in National Review, Raffensperger also criticized Trump for repeating “recycled conspiracy theories” about the 2020 election while running for president in 2024.
“The big lie about the 2020 election has been repeated for over three years, yet no evidence or anything that has not been publicly known since January 2021 has come to light,” Raffensperger wrote.
“The current fluctuations, shown regularly so far during Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, are just one in a dancing fountain of lies disproved by the counting, recounting, and auditing of the 2020 Georgia vote.” “Not a single shred of evidence has been provided in my state or in any other state to support that,” he wrote.
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