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Excerpt: "Georgia's secretary of state certified President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s victory in the state on Friday, dealing a blow to President Trump's bid to overturn the vote in a half-dozen battleground states and with it the national election that Mr. Biden won decisively."

Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, has been criticized by fellow Republicans who claim he ran a flawed election. (photo: Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's secretary of state, has been criticized by fellow Republicans who claim he ran a flawed election. (photo: Nicole Craine/The New York Times)


Brad Raffensperger, Georgia's Top Election Official, Certifies Biden's Victory: 'Numbers Don't Lie.'

By The New York Times

20 November 20

 

eorgia’s secretary of state certified President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the state on Friday, dealing a blow to President Trump’s bid to overturn the vote in a half-dozen battleground states and with it the national election that Mr. Biden won decisively.

The Georgia certification, which ensures that Mr. Biden will receive the state’s 16 electoral votes, was an early milestone in the state-by-state process of finalizing Mr. Biden’s victory, a process that is set to unfold in the coming days as Mr. Trump continues to deny his defeat and cry fraud and his campaign and its surrogates inundate the courts with largely baseless lawsuits that have so far been unsuccessful.

“I live by the motto that numbers don’t lie,” the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s top election official and a Republican, said at a Friday morning news conference at the state capitol. “I believe that the numbers that we have presented today are correct.”

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