Lindsey Graham condemned for allegedly pressuring Georgia to toss out ballots
Georgia’s secretary of state says Republican senator indicated state should find ways to exclude legal, mail-in ballots in recount
Democrats and political observers were quick to condemn the Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, after it was reported that he pressured Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to exclude ballots in the state’s presidential recount.
In a tweet, Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar called the alleged approach “insane and illegal”.
Hakeem Jeffries, a US representative from New York, asked: “Did Lindsey Graham illegally pressure the Georgia secretary of state to rig the election after the fact? The justice department should find out.”
Noah Bookbinder, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, said: “For the chairman of the Senate committee charged with oversight of our legal system to have reportedly suggested that an election official toss out large numbers of legal ballots from American voters is appalling.”