Brad Raffensperger Serves Up The Peaches of Consternation

Brad Raffensperger and others of character are not going to let MAGA burn Atlanta’s electoral integrity just for the YOLO of a lost cause.

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Atlanta hasn’t been besieged by Republicans like this since Sherman. This time however — unlike Willie T ignoring Scarlett’s bleating, burning Atlanta anyway, and marching to the sea — the breastworks of this would-be civil war are being formed against fellow Republican Secretary of State of the great state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger. Bad news for the besiegers, the besieged Brad has plenty of fight in him:

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who he said questioned the validity of legally cast absentee ballots, in an effort to reverse President Trump’s narrow loss in the state.

In a wide-ranging interview about the election, Raffensperger expressed exasperation over a string of baseless allegations coming from Trump and his allies about the integrity of the Georgia results, including claims that Dominion Voting Systems, the Colorado-based manufacturer of Georgia’s voting machines, is a “leftist” company with ties to…