Brad Raffensperger Sets the Record Straight: Abrams Lies Again About Georgia's Elections

Atlanta – Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sets the record straight to Stacey Abrams’ appearance on CNN last night, where she once again lied about past stolen election activism and claims:

"In my time in office, I have spent a lot of time holding failed candidates like Stacey Abrams accountable to Georgia's voters. The latest comments from Stacey Abrams show that she still can’t accept that she lost in 2018. And the fact that she still can’t accept that means she has no business going on TV talking about defending democracy.

The fact is that she lost fair and square under the established rules of the game.

She even spent over $50 million of her donors’ money to try to show that the rules were unfair to her, but she completely lost on all her claims.

She lost not because of any technicality like she now tries to claim, but because, after getting millions of documents and conducting hundreds of depositions, the evidence didn’t support her claims.

She had every chance in the world to prove her claims of “systematic voter suppression” and she couldn’t do it because her claims were nothing but cheap, political talking points.

She tries to wrap herself in flowery language about protecting the right to vote, but the fact is that she is just an election denier.

She wants everyone to forget that her group continually referred to the 2018 election as a “stolen election” and referred to Governor Kemp as Governor* Kemp for many months after he was legitimately elected and sworn in. But Abrams and Fair Fight did both of those things, and they should be ashamed.

The only thing she should be going on TV to say is that she lost the 2018 election fair and square and that she apologizes for her post-election refusal to accept that fact."

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Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 17 days of early voting (which has been called the “gold standard”), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, and 2022. 2022 achieved the largest single day of in-person early voting turnout in Georgia midterm history utilizing Georgia’s secure, paper ballot voting system. Most recently, Georgia ranked #1 for Election Integrity by the Heritage Foundation, a top ranking for Voter Accessibility by the Center for Election Innovation & Research and tied for number one in Election Administration by the Bipartisan Policy Center.