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Kelly Loeffler Calls for Investigation Into 'Unprecedented Changes' Made Before Georgia's 2020 Election

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Former GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia called on her state’s attorney general to investigate “unprecedented changes” made by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during the 2020 election cycle.

Loeffler — who narrowly lost a January runoff election to Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock — argued in a Wednesday letter to Republican Attorney General Chris Carr that Raffensperger’s actions hurt voter confidence and participation.

“We saw the impact of reduced faith in elections in the Senate runoffs, when over 339,000 Republican voters who voted in November did not vote in January,” she wrote.

“Voting rights are not a partisan issue, and the loss of electoral confidence disenfranchises voters of any political affiliation,” Loeffler continued.

The former lawmaker listed multiple problems with last year’s primary and general elections.

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“Georgia’s primary election on June 9, 2020 was administered so poorly the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee was tasked with investigating the election. The investigation identified the following: (i) multiple issues related to absentee ballots; (ii) inadequate training for the new voting machines; and (iii) procedural issues regarding COVID-19,” Loeffler noted.

She next pointed out that Raffensperger himself announced on Sept. 8, 2020, that 1,000 people faced investigation for double voting by both casting an absentee ballot and voting in person during the primary.

Loeffler went on to cite an agreement Raffensperger made with Georgia Democrats in March 2020 “that materially altered the signature verification process for absentee ballot review — without informing the Georgia General Assembly or the general public.”

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The change came “just weeks prior to mailing out mass, unsolicited absentee ballot requests statewide,” she wrote.

Loeffler also highlighted that Raffensperger’s office has accepted $5.59 million from the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which itself has received major funding from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Pricilla Chan.

The CEIR separately gave millions of dollars in grants to certain Georgia counties, Loeffler wrote.

The Center for Tech and Civic Life, which Zuckerberg and Chan also funded, gave $6 million to Fulton County to assist in its election, The Associated Press reported last year.

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Loeffler hit the secretary of state for allowing “unsecure drop boxes whose number varied across the state, with some counties having dozens and others having none.”

Further, she pointed out that the “status of hundreds of primary and general elections investigations allegedly opened by the Secretary of State’s office remains unknown.”

Loeffler suggested Raffensperger’s lack of diligence in these matters may be an attempt to protect his own political career.

“Georgians deserve answers regarding these issues and to understand the impact these and other matters may have on future elections,” she concluded. “Failure to acknowledge these issues and irregularities will lead to a continued loss of trust in our elections.”

Raffensperger dismissed Loeffler’s charges, saying in a statement, “Kelly Loeffler’s failure to convince anyone she actually was a Trump supporter is the reason Georgia doesn’t have a Republican Senator or the United States a Republican Senate. The letter and the allegations in it are laughable.”

The Hill reported that Carr’s office turned down Loeffler’s request for an investigation on Wednesday, explaining that, as the lawyer for Georgia’s executive branch, the attorney general cannot investigate its own client.

In March, a Georgia judge indicated he may allow a government watchdog group to examine absentee ballots cast in November’s election in Fulton County — the Atlanta metro area — for potential voter fraud.

This article appeared originally on Patriot Project.

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