Four years later, Trump still does not acknowledge that he lost the election. Early voting, which ends Friday in Fulton, was heavily staffed and enhanced security.
The Republican candidate for the US elections, Donald Trump, still does not recognize his 2020 electoral defeat and, if the accusation of electoral fraud is repeated this year, Fulton County, Georgia, will have to be invoked.
Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia in the 2020 presidential election was decisive in the defeat of Donald Trump, but his short margin (about 12,000 votes, a fraction of Fulton’s) led him to reject the results and initiate a challenge process which was defeated in court. but culminated in the violent assault on the Capitol by his supporters in January 2021.
Four years later, Trump still does not acknowledge that he lost the electionwhen the campaign enters a tense final stretch.
In recent days, Lusa visited three of the 44 polling stations in Fulton, in the city of Atlanta, where early voting ends on Friday. In all of them, participation was important and orderly, with great number of personnel and reinforced security.
At the Buckhead Library polling station, regina r, county communications director, informed Lusa that 325 thousand people have already voted in advance in the area.
“Early voting is going great”Waller said. At the same time, officials from the Georgia Election Administration, at the center of the election dispute over the vote, conducted an inspection.
Compared to the start of voting. in 2016, attendance tripled: from 15 thousand on the first day of 2016, to 45 thousand this year and “the numbers continue to increase,” according to Waller.
According to official data, theAs of the beginning of the week, nearly three million voters voted throughout the state of Georgia, 40% of the total.
Due to the Republican challenge in 2020, Georgia’s presidential votes were counted three times, including once by hand. They all confirmed the victory of Democrat Joe Biden.
Recounts, reviews and audits in the other swing states also clearly confirmed Trump’s defeat..
While Fulton County admitted to double-reading some ballots during a 2020 recount, it’s unclear if the errors benefited either candidate.
Compared to 2020, the voting process in the state is the same: the voter presents identification, generally a driver’s license, and after verifying it, they are given a green card with a chip, with which they can go to the machine voting. . vote. In this, the voter makes their choice on a touch screen and the machine finally prints a ballot which is then taken to a “scanner” for automatic counting. Multiple registrations make fraud almost impossible.
Still, last August Republicans on the election commission announced their intention to reopen the investigation into the 2020 recount.
John Fervier, chairman (Republican) of the Georgia Election Administration, has criticized his party colleagues in the body.
“I intend to speak with election observers and I have not received a single complaint from them, neither Republicans nor Democrats. They all describe how the process has been smooth and everything has worked very well for us.“said Fervier at the end of the inspection at the Buckhead table.
Lusa also visited a table at one of Atlanta’s major modern art museums and another at a community center in a suburban area of the city, observing in both cases only warnings to some voters not to use their cell phones inside the room. , which is prohibited.
On the Republican side, however, the issue of alleged fraud continues, explored with intensity.
At a Donald Trump rally near the Buckhead library on Monday, several local party officials warned of possible fraud in this year’s election.
In a video broadcast twice before the start of the demonstration, as Lusa testified, the former president himself asked for surveillance of voters at the polling stations and stated that “the only thing that [democratas] “What they know how to do is cheat.”
Faced with these statements from Lusa, Regina Waller avoided responding directly, but assured that there were no reasons for this.
“The last time no fraud was proven. We strive for a clear and transparent process. “We did it in 2020 and we will do it again this year”he told Lusa.
Geneva Jones, director of the polling station at a recreation center in the south of the county, also reported a turnout much higher than in other elections, around four thousand votes in two weeks.
With the electoral rhetoric quite inflamed, There have been some incidents at polling stations, such as this week in the state of Washington (northwest), where a man set fire to polling stations.
In the United States, two early voting ballot boxes catch fire. Hundreds of bulletins were destroyed and the police have already identified a “suspicious vehicle”
This is an added concern for Regina Waller, especially because on Election Day, November 5, there will be 177 polling stations open, quadruple the number of early polling stations, and turnout will be even higher. The staff at the tables, he reported, have received security training.
Source: Observadora
