JOE BIDEN IS AGAIN DECLARED THE WINNER IN GEORGIA AS TIME RUNS OUT ON TRUMP’S EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE RESULTS.
President-elect Joe Biden was officially certified as the winner of this year’s presidential election in Georgia – again – the state’s top election official announced on Monday.
“We have now counted legally-casted ballots three times and the results have remained unchanged,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said.
Also Monday, former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s lawsuit, described as the “Kraken”, was dismissed by a US district court judge. Among Powell’s unfounded charges were allegations of foreign interference in the vote count.
“The claims in the Kraken lawsuit prove to be as mythological as the creature for which they’re named,” Raffensperger said in a statement. “Georgians can now move forward knowing that their votes, and only their legal votes, were counted accurately, fairly, and reliably.”
Tuesday marks the “safe harbor” deadline set by federal law by when all states must certify their election results or they run the risk of their electors not counting. On December 14, each state’s electors will meet and vote for the winner of the presidential election in their state. Biden is projected to have won 306 electors to President Donald Trump’s 232.
Georgia’s final certification comes as Trump and his supporters continue to pressure courts and legislators around the country to overturn election results, claiming fraud and voting irregularities without hard evidence of widespread issues.
Those allegations have been roundly dismissed by judges, state governors and elections officials, including Republican leaders in states such as Georgia and Arizona.
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