Thread by @weareoversight

For weeks preceding the assault on the U.S. Capitol, some leaders claimed the 2020 election was marred by widespread voter fraud—a lie that has no supporting evidence.

We’ve been investigating the efforts to discredit the Georgia election results.
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Even before the election, we were concerned about state voter fraud task forces and their use of the specter of widespread voter fraud to undermine confidence in elections.
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We sued the Georgia Sec. of State’s office for records for records related to the state’s voter fraud task force, election preparedness, and communications with political campaigns. The office released thousands of pages to us. americanoversight.org/georgias-secre…

In response to another records request, on Oct 6, we received a cover letter from the Glynn County Elections Supervisor who wrote ‘‘There is NOT a wide spread case of Voter Fraud happening.”

https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1324414838366441479

Yet, after the Nov. election, Georgia became a focal point of those seeking to discredit the results. So we filed a records request with Georgia’s secretary of state for post-election communications between state officials and voting-restriction activists.
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As Georgia prepared for its January Senate runoff election, the conservative group True the Vote announced that it was challenging the registrations of more than 364,000 voters in the state.

In December, we filed open records requests in 15 counties seeking records of communications with True the Vote or the Public Interest Legal Foundation; state or local Republican party officials; or Georgia’s secretary of state’s office.
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On Dec. 30, we sued Muscogee County, Ga., to compel the release of election officials' communications with or about True the Vote and it's effort to disenfranchise Georgia voters.
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Then, in a disturbing Jan. 2 phone call between Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and President Donald Trump, the president pressured Raffensperger to overturn the election results.
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Saturday, the @washingtonpost reported that in Dec., Trump had called another Georgia official, the state’s lead elections investigator, pressuring them to “find the fraud.” The call could amount to obstruction of justice, according to some legal experts.
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…

We requested records of Raffensperger’s and Gov. Kemp’s communications with the White House and Trump lawyers, and we will continue to investigate efforts by President Trump or other public officials to discredit the election results.
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