ATLANTA – It’s one of the most startling allegations of voting fraud President Donald Trump made in his effort to overturn the election in Georgia – tens of thousands of ineligible voters cast ballots, raising profound doubts about Joe Biden’s victory in the state.
In court documents, the president’s lawyers say out-of-state residents, underage voters, felons, dead people and others ineligible to vote did so anyway in Georgia. They back up those claims with what they say is expert analysis of state registration and voting records, and they named names – thousands of people Trump and his attorneys say voted illegally.
But Georgia officials and election experts say Trump’s list of illegal voters is riddled with errors, based on faulty analyses and demonstrates a lack of understanding of election laws. In court documents filed this week, they say Trump’s list and the analysis that produced it are “highly inaccurate,” “wildly unreliable” and “worthless.”
A Fulton County Superior Court judge may determine the validity of Trump’s claims. But the state’s response offers its most detailed rebuttal yet to voter fraud claims that have roiled Georgia politics and inspired doubts about the integrity of elections among the president’s supporters.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has repeatedly said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Georgia. Trump’s U.S. Attorney General William Barr has said his investigators found no evidence of fraud on a scale that would have changed the outcome of the election.