Raffensperger says Republican voting claims will ‘really hurt’ GOP turnout

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said Sunday that claims about vote integrity from Republicans will “really hurt” turnout for his party.

Raffensperger had already pushed back on a claim from fellow Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene about a Northern Georgia “voter’s printed ballot” being “changed from their selections made on” a Dominion Voting Systems machine in the interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday” with Chris Stirewalt.

Stirewalt noted that “some people, including those in your own party, don’t want … don’t agree with that, and they’re pushing these kinds of stories.”

“What do you say to them, who are pushing this kinda stuff out there, here in the eve of the election?” Stirewalt asked Raffensperger.

“Well, at the end of the day, if you start [spreading] … stories like that, all you’re gonna do is to … we’ll really hurt our turnout on our side,” Raffensperger said. “And I’m a conservative Republican, so I don’t know why they do that … self-defeating.”

As the election has inched closer, former President Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results has made its way back into the headlines. Trump notably called Raffensperger following the election, asking him to find over 11,000 votes that would have overturned President Biden’s win in the Peach State.

“When you get high marks by the Heritage Foundation, you know, they’re giving us a top ranking, that means that we’re doing the right things,” Raffensperger said in the interview Sunday.

Trump is currently leading Vice President Harris in the battle for the White House in Georgia, up by 1.6 percent according to an average of polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ.

The Hill has reached out to Greene’s office and the Republican National Committee.

“The false claim that voting machines can switch votes has been repeatedly debunked,” a spokesperson for Dominion said in a statement emailed to The Hill Sunday, adding that “as both state and local election authorities have confirmed” the incident Greene described “was due to voter error.”

NewsNation is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also owns The Hill. Updated at 1:55 p.m. EDT

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