If Lindsey Graham thought that whole thing about him allegedly pressuring election officials into throwing out legally cast ballots was gonna go away anytime soon, he can think again, because more people are coming out of the woodwork to corroborate the story.
Quick recap: The Washington Post reported this week that Graham had pressured Georgia’s secretary of state Brad Raffensperger into finding a sneaky way to have legally cast mail-in ballots thrown out in certain (read: Democratic-leaning) counties.
“Senator Graham implied for us to audit the envelopes and then throw out the ballots for counties who have the highest frequency error of signatures,” Raffensperge alleged.
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But it’s wasn’t just in Georgia where Graham supposedly did this. The New York Times reported that he also hassled election officials in Nevada and Arizona.
Graham has called the allegations “ridiculous” and insisted he was merely trying to “protect the integrity of mail-in voting,” which is an issue he’s never expressed any concern about in previous elections.
But now, a witness has come forward to corroborate Raffensperge’s claims, saying that, no, actually, Graham really was trying to undermine democracy.
Gabriel Sterling is an election implementation manager who works with Raffensberger. He tells CNN that he was on the conference call where Graham asked about how ballots might be thrown out.
“What I heard was basically discussions about absentee ballots,” Sterling confirms. “If there was a percentage of signatures that weren’t really, truly matching, is there some point we could get to, we could say, somebody went to a courtroom could say well, let’s throw (out) all these ballots.”
He adds, “There is no physical ability for this office to do anything along those lines. If somebody wanted to go that route, they could go the court route.”
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Sterling stops just short of saying he thinks Graham acted illegally, though he does say the antigay senator from South Carolina “might have gone a little to the edge of” what is acceptable.
“The president is going to continue to fight, his supporters continue to fight,” he continues. “Our job is to continue to follow the law, and we were answering process questions… that’s what we were doing on the call.”
Three lawyers are now asking the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the call and whether Graham may have committed any ethics violations.
“If these allegations are true, Sen. Graham’s conduct constitutes an abuse of office and conduct unbecoming of a senator,” the complaint reads. “For the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee to suggest to a state Secretary of State that he refrain from counting lawful votes threatens the electoral process and damages representative democracy.”
Why do we have a feeling more shoes are about to drop?
Mister P
Wait until after the inauguration to indict him so Donald Dump can’t pardon him.
ElPillo
Trump himself needs and investigation for meddling himself in asking that certification be changed. Disgusting. They and those who still think he “governed” well. Make America Corrupt Again?
butchqueen
YAAAASSS!!!
missvamp
agreed. but once he goes to jail, he’ll be right where he wants to be. thrown into a pit with the sodomites! he will finally be drilled day in & day out.
GayEGO
And in jail, Trump will be their dear leader unless we isolate him so he can’t give them his orders!
Kangol2
I get that Don the Con’s cultists are all in. I get it. No amount of objective reality is going to get through to them. But why on earth would any of them think that 1) a very conservative official like Raffensberger would do anything to help Democrats or Democratic voters, let alone the Democratic ticket; and 2) it would be OK to bully a fellow Republican and even call for illegal acts, without him telling them to back the F off?
Oh, that’s right, because we’ve had 4 years of this kind of behavior from the wannabe dictator/mafioso Don the Con, who’s bullied and whiplashed his own party into submission, even if that involves potentially illegal acts. Hell, he even got impeached trying to force the new PM of a foreign country to smear his opponent, who STILL won, and his campaign and some of his allies were allegedly conspiring, according the Mueller Report and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Report, with agents of the Russian government, to the extent that a number of them were indicted and convicted of felonious crimes.
Somebody out to tell Lindsey what a majority of voters made clear: that Donny Two Scoops is FIRED!
Shackrat
Because I have a strong feeling as well that much more will come to light on this issue. And people wonder why I hate politics?!?!?
bachy
Get these crooks out of our White House now!!!
jkb
They are going to find so much more incriminating evidence of unlawful activity. Nothing will come of it as we treat politicians like royalty, but it will be there.
RichardPeters
Yep, Lindsay is one of the good guys. They are finding a ton of stuff.
jsmu
Leningrad LindseyC*NT really is bucking for prime supervillain status against P*TAB*tchMoscowMitch. Uphill battle, but Ladybugs G is working it…
fur_hunter
Miss Lindseybelle is nothing more than a LYING, Arrogant, Self-Centered, F UCKING, Piece of S HIT, SCUMBAG, A SS HOLE KISSER. I would love to see his A SS dragged off to prison for corruption. He’s totally disgusting and makes me PUKE.
leauxbeaux
Wondering about fur_hunter’s real feelings about all of this.
Bob
Not sure, but he might be upset. :>
Liquid Silver
Exactly. Fur_hunter, please tell us how you really feel.
mz.sam
Unfortunately, the reality is the GOP led Senate oversight committee won’t investigate Lindsey by pushing the envelope for his 1st Amendment rights without actual committing criminal behavior by law. NOTE: The important thing is to support/donate to Georgia’s Senate Democratic runoffs: Warnock and Ossof’s campaign. Help FLIP THE SENATE by January 2021.
ldweisberg
Oh, Lady Graham is putting her foot in it now!
Norm
They think they can do anything with trump in there. Well, he’s OUTA THERE! Now’s the time to clean up the messes like Graham. Biden and Kamala should expose and expel these crooks and cheats and that can be what would make them loved and respected, flushing these crooks and creeps down the toilet!
amanwithanedge
get this nasty botch out of office. he’s a disgrace.
dhmonarch89
he was just re elected for 6 years…Republicans don’t care now and won’t remember when he runs again about how many times he violated ANY rule or possible law. The Party won’t condemn or throw him out- that’s the main difference between 2 parties- Democrats would cave to pressure and force him out if he were a Democrat- Republicans will congratulate him and keep him as Senate Judiciary Chairman. Republicans get away with things all the time and this won’t be a blip on the radar.
IndependentForever
I totally agree with your assessment. Nothing will be done. Repukians do not resign when caught. Moscow Mitch will do nothing in the way of investigation or even a punishment. If this was a Dumocrat the dumb wimp would have resigned by now or Moscow Mitch would have taken a quick break from the only thing this Senate does ( appoint judges and take their usual breaks and go home ) while the country burns. McConnel would have had the quickest trial process and booted the Dumocrat while he still has the majority.
What the hell goes on in South Carolina and Kentucky that those people sent Lyin’ Lindsay and Moscow Mitch back to DC for 6 more years? Both state’s populations must be dumb as dog shit or ignorant fools.
Bob
Hopefully in a couple of months he won’t be chairman any more! C’mon Georgia, we need you!
David Myers
His Majority Committee chair position will be gone . . . . if Democrats win the two Senate Run-off elections in Georgia on January 5th! He would then be demoted to Minority leader in that committee but not the chair. Everything depends upon winning those two seats. Please send donations to support this unique “two for one” opportunity!
Bearmann52
I hope he must surrender his office and resign. Donald Trump has ruined this country at home and abroad. I will sing a few Hallelujahs when he and his cronies leave the White House.
nm4047
nothing ever going to change in the US political system, love how outrage people are but once the dust settles the status quo is re-established. Kick up your heels now, as this most likely will be the last time a Democrat will hold the whitehouse, gerrymanders that have been put in place all over the States by Republican controlled States basically will make it all but impossible to hold the Presidency.
stan2015
What does Donald Trump have on him. Pictures of Lindsey with young boys?
MISTERJETT
January 20th can’t come soon enough!!!
GayEGO
Linda Graham Cracker needs to be convicted and jailed, along with Trump and his cronies!
FLGay
Time for Lindsey to move on to the next life.