GA Governor: I Won’t Break The Law To Help Trump

Raw Story reports:

In particular, Kemp’s office took issue with Trump’s demand that he overrule Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to conduct a signature-match audit of ballots, despite the fact that voters’ signatures were only used on the envelopes used to send in ballots, not the ballots themselves.

“Georgia law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections,” said Kemp spokesman Cody Hall. “The Secretary of State, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order.”

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Response from Kemp spox (via @bluestein) “Georgia law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. The Secretary of State, who is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order.” https://t.co/dAfkxx8Y70

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) November 30, 2020

1) Governor Kemp does not have this power 2) Signature matching already happened twice, first when the voter applied for the ballot and then the ballot was received. Ballots w/ mismatched signatures that the voter does not cure are not counted and not included in this recount https://t.co/4bVsunnKHM

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) November 30, 2020

It’s impossible to do signature matching *again* because the ballots have already been separated from the envelopes with the voter’s name and signature on them. You just can’t trace back a ballot to a specific voter’s envelope after that separation https://t.co/EYmyMa7hXn

— Grace Panetta (@grace_panetta) November 30, 2020