Christian Science Monitor interviews Georgia GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger:

Do you feel like the members who make up the majority governing Georgia’s State Election Board understand how elections work?

No, I don’t think they do. And the only way to understand how elections work is to volunteer to be a poll worker. It’s as easy as that. Once you’ve worked one election, you start understanding, ‘oh, they’ve got this procedure to close that gate [to potential voting fraud].’

These people don’t know what to look for. So any great conspiracy theory they hear, they buy into it.

Do you think these Election Board members are operating in bad faith?

(Mr. Raffensperger pauses for 9 seconds.)

That’s a long pause.

I think they’re living in the past. They’re fighting the wrong battle, because we’ve already [responded to] many of these concerns that everyone had. The ballot storage boxes now are defined where they’ll be and how many there’ll be per county. You got one for every 100,000 voters. We also now have voter ID.

All the early voting [now] has to be reported no later than one hour after polls close, so 8 p.m.

So all you’re waiting for now is the 30% to 35% that could have been cast on Election Day. And we want to make sure we have constant updates from the counties.

Everything that they’ve done with their rules and regulations slows down the process. We’re serious when we say ‘free, fair and fast.’ And what they’re doing is just throwing a wrench into the works. [Continue reading…]