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9 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read
1. Yesterday, Georgia's Secretary of State announced that 1K people voted twice & they would be prosecuted for felony crimes that carry a sentence of up to 10 years

It's a pretty dramatic claim

But when you examine it closely, it completely falls apart

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2. First, you have to understand how voting works in Georgia. If you show up at a polling place and your absentee ballot is already been received, the poll worker is supposed to let you know and you aren't allowed to vote.

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3. If you are allowed to vote and your absentee ballot comes in later, it is not supposed to be counted.

So if anyone had their vote counted twice it is a result of ERRORS BY ELECTION OFFICIALS OVERSEEN BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE

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4. So many, if not all of the people, who had their vote counted twice received incorrect or incomplete information from a poll worker.

Could they still be charged with felony fraud?

The Secretary of States says yes.

He's wrong.

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5. Fraud requires an element called "scienter." Scienter is a legal term which means a party had knowledge of the wrongdoing. In other words, Georgia law only applies to someone who intentionally attempts to vote twice.

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6. Most of the coverage just took the Secretary of State at his word, amplifying his attempt at voter intimidation.

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7. Georgia's election system completely melted down during the June primary. It was in no small part due to decisions made by the Secretary of State. He's now blaming voters for the result of chaos that he created.

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It's what he did to them.

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1. The Trump campaign has accepted thousands of dollars from neo-Nazi leader Morris Gulett.

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1. In the 2016 election, there were 57.2 MILLION votes cast by mail.

Trump raised no objections.

Instead, he falsely claimed that 3 million undocumented immigrants voted.

Then Trump himself voted by mail in subsequent elections.

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2. The first time Trump raised objections to mail in voting was THIS APRIL.

AFTER the pandemic made in-person voting potentially dangerous for many people

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