The defamation lawsuit against Raffensperger of Georgia
Somehow I’d previously missed this news, but it’s worth paying attention to: it involves our old friend Brad Raffensperger (see previous posts of mine about him, for example this one). He’s presently being sued for defamation concerning the following:
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is facing a powerful defamation lawsuit arising from false claims he made about a Republican election volunteer in his 2021 book “Integrity Counts.” He wrote and published that a video presentation of unsupervised ballot counting at State Farm Arena in Atlanta had been “doctored,” “chopped up,” “cut,” “sliced up,” and “deceptively sliced and edited so that it appeared to show the exact opposite of reality,” allegedly including a “slice of video that had removed the clear evidence” that the law had been followed.
None of that was true. Jacki Pick, a Republican volunteer on the Trump legal team, was the sole presenter of the video to Georgia legislators to show that Republican election observers’ claims about unsupervised ballot counting in Georgia’s largest county were true. While she did not show the entire 20 hours of the video in her 12-minute presentation, nothing she showed was edited, chopped up, sliced, or diced, in any way.
Raffensperger published the self-promotional book in November 2021 as part of his campaign for re-election. It came a year after he oversaw one of the most controversial state elections of 2020. He had faced a deluge of criticism from election integrity advocates over various decisions he and his office made in the run up to and aftermath of the 2020 election. …
In August of 2024, Raffensperger ran to his allies at left-wing propaganda outlets The New York Times and CNN to have them mischaracterize the defamation lawsuit and help him personally raise money to fight it. “Defying Trump Over Election Costs a Republican, Literally,” blared the front page headline of the New York Times, which claimed that he had spent $500,000 to fight the lawsuit.
In fact, the lawsuit has nothing to do with “defying Trump” in 2020. Rather it deals with the words Raffensperger published one year later in his book about Pick’s video presentation.
There’s much more at the link.
In that old post of mine I linked earlier, I speculated on what’s going on with Raffensperger, who is a Republican. Here’s something I think was the motive for his behavior in 2020, and which I think is still operating with him:
This seems to be an example of a Republican SOS pushing for extreme liberalization of voting laws due to COVID fear, and a GOP legislature trying to fight him but failing to succeed. I also wouldn’t discount the influence on Raffensperger of fear of Stacey Abrams and her leftist money and her ability to win in court by accusing the GOP opposition of racism, and I suspect that’s a partial explanation for Raffensperger’s cave. …
… this is another example of GOP infighting, in which it seems to me that Raffensperger’s main concern (even perhaps his sole concern) is protecting himself against accusations that he had any role in the [2020] debacle.
Re Raffensperger. That’s rich. /sarc
Or Raffensperger is just a Democrat and always has been but chose to run as a Republican because it is Georgia.
Doesn’t seem to be any room for the “oops, I missed that part” defense.
The secretary of state is an extremely powerful position and the Democrats through donors like Soros have had an SOS project to elect more Democrats . Here’s a list of states with SOS elections in 2024. Except for Oregon and Washington, the Republicans have a chance in all the other states. i’m going to donate money to the campaigns of Republicans. Particularly concerning to me is that North Carolina has a democrat Secretary of State.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_secretary_of_state_elections
At any point in the last four years he could have apologized but he doesnt really care about this country
Bob Wilson, fortunately in North Carolina the Secretary of State has nothing to do with elections. This is all handled by the State Board of Elections. The NC GOP is currently pushing two lawsuits on the Dem-controlled BOE on cleaning the voter rolls. But even the Dem-controlled BOE can’t cheat too heavily with the tight elections systems we have. Paper ballots and photo ID are required statewide, even for mailed absentee voters.
Thanks for the heads up, Kate. You need to get a republican governor. The Texas Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has done a major league cleaning of the voter rolls. The Left is not pleased.
“… this is another example of GOP infighting, …”
But, is it really? Raffensperger labels himself a “Republican” but is he, really, and exactly what is a “Republican”?
Democrats are easy to identify – more, bigger government with more authority and power is the foundational creed around which they unify. That may not be the Mission Statement posted on the wall at DNC HQ, but it’s the philosophy followed, or at least accepted, in part or in whole, by most Democrats whether or not they deny it or obfuscate about it.
But what, really are “Republicans” for? Sure, at the national 4-year convention they have a theme (of sorts), but day in, day out, they seem largely unidentifiable as to philosophy, mission and unification of effort.
Which, according to many, is the “hive mind” defect of Democrats and the glory of “independence” among Republicans.
So what is Raffensperger? He has an “R” after his name, gets recognition, support and money from the Republican mothership as well as some of each from state organizations, but at the core, what is he, actually? What bedrock principles does he unwaveringly commit to, positions, both political and moral, that he consistently devotes himself to upholding without compromise? What affront would drive him to condemnation and resignation rather than accommodation?
(That much the same may be said of nearly everyone with an “R” after their name currently is, I’m sure, merely a coincidence.)
Bob Wilson, we do need a Republican governor in NC. Sadly, it looks like four more years of a Republican legislature and a Dem governor. Mark Robinson has too many past statements they’re nailing him with. I thought this would happen, and voted for someone else in the primary. Sigh.
hes a publicly affirming Christian, they are the Demon spawn,
He is, miguel. But there are past videos and Facebook posts they’re nailing him with, and there’s some kind of scandal (real or not, I don’t know) with a charity his wife runs. The Democrat, Josh Stein, has outraised Robinson by a huge amount, and he’s using it on TV ads. Robinson’s fundraising was anemic, perhaps because the big donors didn’t think he could win.
@miguel: There’s a lot of Democrat Christians, especially in North Carolina. I don’t know that being a publicly affirming Christian is a particularly compelling qualification there.
Where I live, in the Pacific Northwest, we have lots of churches. You can spot them a mile away from their huge rainbow flags.
hes a real one, but the Old Gods have their adherents, Dems seem to be ignorant not only about faith, but Science, in myriad ways,
the Research triangle is where they perfected gain of function, a euphemism for the biological warfare exercise we saw four years ago, as we saw from the correspondence with Fauci,
So Warnock to use a recent example is the worst sort of scalawag, a thief a Marxist,
a supporter of Hamas and Castro, well who ever runs the plantation over there,
Robinson is an active member of a black Baptist church and appears to be sincere in his faith. He opposes the transgender agenda and is hardline on abortion; he and his wife had one when they were young and deeply regret it. He has indicated a willingness to sign an even more restrictive abortion law instead of the 12-week limit (with a few exceptions) which passed this legislative session and was enacted over Cooper’s veto. Democrats are using that, among other things.
Josh Stein would be another Cooper if there’s another epidemic and would shut down the state in the blink of an eye.