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Georgia Secretary of State Battles Lindsey Graham Over Voter Fraud Claims
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1:14Now PlayingGeorgia's top elections official is under attack from President Donald Trump and other fellow Republicans in the aftermath of the heated election season.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has been disputing claims of widespread voter fraud in Georgia from Trump's campaign since unofficial returns have shown Democrat Joe Biden with a 14,000-vote lead in the once reliably red state.
Georgia's two U.S. senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, have demanded that Raffensperger resign.
"I felt that they were coming under pressure from the Trump campaign and they sent that out there," Raffensperger said of their letter. "I don't know if there's a perfunctory request for my resignation, but I'm not going anywhere."
The state's Republican governor and members of Congress have pushed for investigations.
Raffensperger has ordered a hand-tallied audit of the presidential race, but he says he doesn't think the outcome will change.
State law requires an audit but leaves it up to the top elections official to choose the race.
"As a Republican, I think that I'll probably be disappointed in the result, but as the secretary of state, I can be very comfortable in the counting of the ballots and that's why we went above and beyond the call of duty," he said.
Raffensperger has also said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham asked him whether he had the power to reject certain absentee ballots.
He told The Washington Post he interpreted the question as a suggestion that he toss out legally cast ballots.
Graham on Monday said that was "ridiculous." He said he was trying to find out how signature verification for absentee ballots works in Georgia.
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