Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R-Cumming) said this week he wants legislators to discuss “serious, meaningful election reform” during the current legislative session, and he suggested state officials require a photo ID if people vote absentee.
Duncan, during a press conference at the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta, also pitched the idea of a statewide grand jury to monitor possible election fraud.
“Certainly over the last several months we have had a vigorous debate, one that I feel like challenged some initial progress to election reform because of the amount of misinformation and the amount of conspiracy theories that, quite honestly, were not true, unfounded, and debunked in a matter of seconds most times. But like every election cycle, I believe there is an opportunity to take some lessons learned and look for opportunities to make our elections even better,” Duncan said.
“We are going to take the next 40 legislative days to really examine opportunities to do that as we move forward. I think there are opportunities to not even have to think outside the box but modernize.”
Duncan proposed that Georgia’s attorney general assign a statewide grand jury to investigate alleged election fraud in a local jurisdiction. That, he added, “would remove any sense of local politics out of the initial equation.”
Duncan, however, stopped short of saying state officials should stop allowing people to vote using drop boxes.
“We have heard the idea mentioned. I think there are pros and cons, and we will have this process of walking it through committee and understanding what those pros and cons are as far as absentee ballots are,” Duncan said.
“I want to make sure everyone understands. Five million people voted in the presidential election and a slightly lesser number in the [U.S. Senate] runoff. We are going to be as broadly representative of everybody who is out there voting. We will put those on the scale for sure.”
As reported, Georgia Speaker of the House David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) has formed a Special Committee on Election Integrity. Absentee voters in the state voted for current U.S. President Joe Biden by a vote of two to one.
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Chris Butler is an investigative journalist at The Tennessee Star. Follow Chris on Facebook. Email tips to [email protected].
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Might want to direct them to step of Investigations of the Nov 3, 2020 Elections. Georgia Looks like a crime syndicate ran state.