Trump's claim of voter fraud in Georgia Debunked in real time

A data analyst, Matt Braynard, had compiled a list of Georgia voters who President Trump’s campaign claimed cast illegal ballots in the state. His research has been cited in numerous suits in Georgia filed by Trump and his allies.

Here’s what happened when a Georgia lawmaker scrutinized
the Trump campaign’s list of allegedly illegal votes​

When Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen reviewed a list of voters who President Trump’s campaign claimed cast illegal ballots in the state, three names caught her eye: two friends and a constituent.

For days, Nguyen

• pored over public records, such as property tax, etc.,
• spoke with voters by phone and even knocked on doors in person to vet the Trump list.

She found that it included dozens of voters who were eligible to vote in Georgia — along with their full names and home addresses.

On Thursday, when Matt Braynard told a panel of state lawmakers that the list proved thousands of voters cast ballots in Georgia who should not have, Nguyen was ready.

Nguyen’s dissected the data / offered a rare real-time fact check of the unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud that the president’s allies have promoted in state hearings around the country, largely before friendly Republican audiences.

“If you are going to take the names of voters in the state of Georgia and publish their first, middle and last name, their home address, and accuse them of committing a felony, at the very minimum there should have been an attempt to contact these voters,” she said in an interview after the hearing. “There was no such attempt.”

The episode shows how quickly the allegations by Trump and his supporters have fallen apart under scrutiny, particularly in the courts, which have consistently rejected assertions that rampant irregularities tainted the vote.


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