Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, is attacking his primary opponent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over the 2020 election again, this time wielding his legislative powers.
In what appears to be an attempt to galvanize his right-wing supporters, Jones, a close ally of President Donald Trump, has demanded that Raffensperger appear at a state Senate Ethics Committee meeting Thursday so Jones and his supporters can grill Raffensperger on what they incorrectly claim were 315,000 wrongly certified Fulton County ballots from 2020.
Adding to the tension, a Republican state senator filed a resolution calling on Raffensperger to comply with a U.S. Department of Justice request for detailed voter data that includes names, dates of birth, residential addresses, driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. Raffensperger has said that would violate state law and infringe on Georgians’ privacy. Georgia is among 23 states the Justice Department has sued to get that information.
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