Pramila Jayapal Says "Lindsey Graham Must Resign" After He Tried to Meddle in Georgia Election
Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) called on Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to resign after Graham has reportedly been trying to pull shenanigans with election results, potentially bolstering President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud and rigging. Graham, once a Trump critic who has turned into a presidential lapdog, has reportedly been asking GOP officials election-related questions about mail-in ballots. One official came forward to say he felt Graham was trying to advocate for throwing out legal votes.
The Washington Post was the first to report Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger (a Republican) said he’s been dealing with fellow GOP members attacking his work as he oversees the Georgia vote tallying. He told the Post he was shocked when Graham called him with a question about signature matching, which Raffensperger interpreted as a ploy to get legally cast mail-in ballots thrown out in some counties.
"During our discussion, he asked if ... the absentee ballots could be matched back to the envelope,” Raffensperger told CBS This Morning. “I explained our process, after it went through two sets of signature match, at that point they were separated. But then Senator Graham implied for us to audit the envelopes and then throw out the ballots for counties who have the highest frequency error of signatures. I tried to help explain that because we did signature match, you couldn't tie the signatures back anymore to those ballots."
On Monday, Graham called Raffensperger’s claim that the South Carolina senator had asked him to toss out legally cast ballots “ridiculous,” the Post reported.
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