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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4740703" data-attributes="member: 48469">You think that&#039;s all the Republican Georgia state legislature is gonna try after black people helped Georgia elect 2 Democratic senators and a Democratic President, eh? <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-donald-trump-georgia-elections-atlanta-c23d10e5299e14daee6109885f7dafa9" target="_blank">AP FACT CHECK: Trump&#039;s made-up claims of fake Georgia votes</a>TRUMP: “The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted. And I think the number is in the — close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number. And a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.”THE FACTS: Not true. Georgia officials have debunked previous claims by the Trump campaign in November that three particular people had voted illegally, finding that other people with similar names had voted. At the time, a local district attorney announced an investigation into whether a ballot had illegally been cast in the name of a northwest Georgia man who died in 2015.On Saturday, Raffensperger said two illegal votes on behalf of dead people have been confirmed, not thousands as Trump alleged. “The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so that’s wrong,” Raffensperger said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4740703, member: 48469"] You think that's all the Republican Georgia state legislature is gonna try after black people helped Georgia elect 2 Democratic senators and a Democratic President, eh? [URL="https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-donald-trump-georgia-elections-atlanta-c23d10e5299e14daee6109885f7dafa9"]AP FACT CHECK: Trump's made-up claims of fake Georgia votes[/URL] TRUMP: “The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted. And I think the number is in the — close to 5,000 people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an accurate number. And a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.” THE FACTS: Not true. Georgia officials have debunked previous claims by the Trump campaign in November that three particular people had voted illegally, finding that other people with similar names had voted. At the time, a local district attorney announced an investigation into whether a ballot had illegally been cast in the name of a northwest Georgia man who died in 2015. On Saturday, [B]Raffensperger said two illegal votes on behalf of dead people have been confirmed, not thousands as Trump alleged. “The actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. And so that’s wrong,” Raffensperger said.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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