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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,183 posts)
Sat Dec 12, 2020, 03:41 PM Dec 2020

After Biden's win in Georgia, the state's GOP House Speaker wants to strip voters from choosing the

Secretary of State

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston on Thursday called for a constitutional amendment to allow state legislators to choose the Secretary of State - thereby taking away the responsibility from voters - in response to continued Republican unrest over President-elect Joe Biden's statewide victory over President Donald Trump in the November election.

Ralston, a Republican, said that legislators in the GOP-controlled Georgia General Assembly, which includes the state House of Representatives and Senate, would select the Secretary of State, who runs statewide elections, upon approval of the amendment.

However, voters would have to approve the constitutional amendment.

After Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a fellow Republican, declined to participate in a state Senate hearing on the election, Ralston said that he was "shocked" and "disappointed" by the move, according to Atlanta's NBC affiliate 11 Alive.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-biden-s-win-in-georgia-the-state-s-gop-house-speaker-wants-to-strip-voters-from-choosing-the-secretary-of-state/ar-BB1bSj60?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

You dumbshit the Secretary of State isn't the reason Georgia voters chose Biden. He did however defend the results of the election which is his job.
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After Biden's win in Georgia, the state's GOP House Speaker wants to strip voters from choosing the (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2020 OP
Gosh, we can't let the voters decide! vlyons Dec 2020 #1
in Texas the Secretary of State is appointed by the Governor yellowdogintexas Dec 2020 #2
Raffensperger still tried to purge 300,000 GA voters from the rolls before the election so he's stil uponit7771 Dec 2020 #3

yellowdogintexas

(22,270 posts)
2. in Texas the Secretary of State is appointed by the Governor
Sat Dec 12, 2020, 03:58 PM
Dec 2020

It is not on the ballot.
Every state has its own method. Kentucky puts it on the ballot when they vote for governor

uponit7771

(90,359 posts)
3. Raffensperger still tried to purge 300,000 GA voters from the rolls before the election so he's stil
Sat Dec 12, 2020, 04:09 PM
Dec 2020

... still an asshole just didn't work and afterwards he had to do what was right in the open

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