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Raffensperger, Sterling, and That Damned Phone Call
Posted on 2/9/26 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 2/9/26 at 1:02 pm
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Every now and then a Carter Center Republican will ask me why I have such a problem with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Gabe Sterling, and their henchmen.
So, here are just the major highlights. This is a bit on the long side, but also detailed, and from now on this is probably what I will be giving people instead of explaining it all over and over again.
But even seasoned election integrity activists may take important facts out of this article, so I invite you all to spend some time going through it, and the links it contains. As you read, you might also want to keep in mind that I gave most of this information to the Feds.
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“That Damned Phone Call”
On January 2, 2021 I didn’t even know that Trump-Raffensperger phone call was happening. No one told me. All I knew was that I had gotten an email that day from one of the attorneys asking me to send him yet another copy of the data I had given them at the end of November. He didn’t say why, but it only took me a couple minutes to send it again, so I just did as he asked.
Later, when the news broke, and I finally heard the recording and read the transcript, it didn’t take me long to spot the argument over my own analysis. It began when Kurt Hilbert started talking. I'd had contact with him, Ray Smith, and Patrick Witt here on the local level, and Cleta Mitchell on the national level.
If you read that part, you will see that the auditor they had me work with in New York threw out a conservative estimate of 24,149 unlawful votes, but the real number in need of investigation was approximately 35,000.
It was patently obvious to me that President Trump was speaking his usual shorthand on what he thought was a semi-private phone call. When he said "find me 11,780 votes" he was not asking Raffensperger to manufacture unlawful votes. He was asking him to investigate the tens of thousands of votes that I and other analysts had already given him long before that day.
On that call I heard Raffensperger dodging the same exact issues I had personally taught him about more than two years prior - long before he even held the Secretary of State's office.
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Only the truly committed will read the whole thing, but at this point, if you still give a substantial damn about getting to the bottom of the 2020 election in 2026, maybe there's hope yet that enough folks understand just how royally fricked we were.
This post was edited on 2/9/26 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 2/9/26 at 1:12 pm to VoxDawg
Anyway we can get a view of this without having to log in and update Xweeter?
Posted on 2/9/26 at 1:13 pm to VoxDawg
Since the article is long and has a lot of external content references I got Grok to summarize it:


Posted on 2/9/26 at 1:29 pm to whereishobson
The Aftermath of 2020
Dissatisfied with Raffensperger’s handling of the 2020 election, Mark Rountree cut ties with him soon after. I was still annoyed about the double voting investigation but was also trying to at least maintain a decent working relationship with them. I’ve maintained one with every Secretary of State’s office, Democrat or Republican, for decades now.
Then not long after Election Day, I began working on an analysis of the voter rolls – not for anyone in particular – but to satisfy my own curiosity. I had decided to run the same kinds of queries I normally do in the cases I’ve worked in, but this time on a statewide basis.
So, after I completed my data processing, I ran one final SQL query and then sat back and waited for “The Beast” to chew through over 7.6 million records.
About a minute later, I suddenly found myself staring at what I knew to be evidence of “systemic irregularities” in that election - data suggesting we’d had tens of thousands of residency violations as well as felony violations of other state and federal election laws.
I don’t think I will ever forget the weight I felt as I sat there staring at my computer monitor, with my heart racing and my mouth hanging open, just trying to get my head around the implications of what I was looking at.
I was well aware that raising those issues could put me and my family right in the eye of the hurricane that had become the 2020 election, but I also felt an enormous sense of duty to keep moving forward.
The Fork in the Road
When I finally calmed down, I knew I needed to do two things almost simultaneously. First, I needed to get that data to President Trump’s attorneys, which I was able to do fairly quickly with a little networking help.
Second, I needed to do something about the upcoming 2021 US Senate runoff, or those violations were just going to occur all over again.
I could literally write a book about the events that unfolded down each of those paths, and maybe one day I will, but for now I’ll summarize what came next.
One path led to that evidence being included in President Trump’s Georgia lawsuit, and to an argument between him and Brad Raffensperger in that now infamous January 2021 phone call.
The other led to a process server at my door on Christmas Eve who brought me a present - three full years of high stakes lawfare in federal court with Stacey Abrams and her attorneys, led by the the arms dealer of Democrat lawfare himself, Marc Elias.
Dissatisfied with Raffensperger’s handling of the 2020 election, Mark Rountree cut ties with him soon after. I was still annoyed about the double voting investigation but was also trying to at least maintain a decent working relationship with them. I’ve maintained one with every Secretary of State’s office, Democrat or Republican, for decades now.
Then not long after Election Day, I began working on an analysis of the voter rolls – not for anyone in particular – but to satisfy my own curiosity. I had decided to run the same kinds of queries I normally do in the cases I’ve worked in, but this time on a statewide basis.
So, after I completed my data processing, I ran one final SQL query and then sat back and waited for “The Beast” to chew through over 7.6 million records.
About a minute later, I suddenly found myself staring at what I knew to be evidence of “systemic irregularities” in that election - data suggesting we’d had tens of thousands of residency violations as well as felony violations of other state and federal election laws.
I don’t think I will ever forget the weight I felt as I sat there staring at my computer monitor, with my heart racing and my mouth hanging open, just trying to get my head around the implications of what I was looking at.
I was well aware that raising those issues could put me and my family right in the eye of the hurricane that had become the 2020 election, but I also felt an enormous sense of duty to keep moving forward.
The Fork in the Road
When I finally calmed down, I knew I needed to do two things almost simultaneously. First, I needed to get that data to President Trump’s attorneys, which I was able to do fairly quickly with a little networking help.
Second, I needed to do something about the upcoming 2021 US Senate runoff, or those violations were just going to occur all over again.
I could literally write a book about the events that unfolded down each of those paths, and maybe one day I will, but for now I’ll summarize what came next.
One path led to that evidence being included in President Trump’s Georgia lawsuit, and to an argument between him and Brad Raffensperger in that now infamous January 2021 phone call.
The other led to a process server at my door on Christmas Eve who brought me a present - three full years of high stakes lawfare in federal court with Stacey Abrams and her attorneys, led by the the arms dealer of Democrat lawfare himself, Marc Elias.
This post was edited on 2/9/26 at 1:30 pm
Posted on 2/9/26 at 1:58 pm to riccoar
The racket in the GA SecState office that they're attempting to keep running for 3 consecutive office holders (Kemp, Raffensperger and now Sterling) tells you everything you need to know.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:01 pm to VoxDawg
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Only the truly committed will read the whole thing, but at this point, if you still give a substantial damn about getting to the bottom of the 2020 election in 2026, maybe there's hope yet that enough folks understand just how royally fricked we were.
My issue is that I'm just bored and fed up with it. When I see someone's head beneath the proverbial carnifex axe and about to fill up a wooden bucket, they'll regain my interest.
Until then, why keep getting worked up about something that will go unpunished? Yes, I care about it. But no one at the levels that can actually DO SOMETHING about it seem to care.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:04 pm to VoxDawg
Why did all these republicans who voted for and supported trump decide to rig an election against him?
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:06 pm to Clark14
Raffensperger didn’t rig the election. He failed to protect the integrity of the election. Which is kind of his job.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:14 pm to the808bass
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Raffensperger didn’t rig the election. He failed to protect the integrity of the election. Which is kind of his job.
So one guy rigged it by not rigging it? Looks like after six years and a raid to get all the voting data that they would have figured this out by now. But trump says it was rigged despite everyone around him telling him it wasn’t so we should believe him over everyone else? Everything that he loses at is rigged or is a hoax, even before the election he said the only way he would lose was if it was rigged, he was already setting this up because he knew he wasn’t going to win.
Beating this dead horse isn’t going to change the facts.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:16 pm to Clark14
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So one guy rigged it by not rigging it?
You don’t read good.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:20 pm to Clark14
No you dummy. He sat on his hands and did nothing while others cheated right under his nose. Once the fraud was credibly alleged, he acted to block any meaningful recourse in order to save his own hide.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 2:24 pm to Clark14
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Why did all these republicans who voted for and supported trump decide to rig an election against him?
Why assume they are republicans?
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:14 pm to djsdawg
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Why assume they are republicans?
They all made it clear that they were republicans and voted for trump and that the election results were legit. They were getting death threats from your ilk.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:15 pm to Vacherie Saint
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No you dummy. He sat on his hands and did nothing while others cheated right under his nose. Once the fraud was credibly alleged, he acted to block any meaningful recourse in order to save his own hide.
You call me dummy then post that? Damn.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:20 pm to VoxDawg
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if you still give a substantial damn about getting to the bottom of the 2020
DJT isn't going to let it go until something comes out of it....as he should.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:27 pm to Clark14
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Clark14
Thanks for the chuckle. It will never get old watching you and the other crybabies being wrong.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:38 pm to TigerAxeOK
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Until then, why keep getting worked up about something that will go unpunished? Yes, I care about it. But no one at the levels that can actually DO SOMETHING about it seem to care.
RICO will take them down. Stay worked up, my friend!
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:47 pm to Clark14
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You call me dummy then post that? Damn.
On the morning of November 4th, Brad Raffensperger said that there were 2% of the ballots outstanding to count. At that time, Trump had a 2% lead.
You have to pretend to not know so many things.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 3:58 pm to VoxDawg
this requires one to believe that trump just rattled off the exact number of votes he needed to win georgia as an arbitrary number. you know, just freestylin, tossing ideas around
he was asking georgia to rig the vote count for him, plain as day
he was asking georgia to rig the vote count for him, plain as day
Posted on 2/9/26 at 4:03 pm to Clark14
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Why did all these republicans who voted for and supported trump decide to rig an election against him?
The Republicans didn't rig it. Democrats did. The Republicans just sat on their hands, much like Mike Pence, and failed to correct the wrongs.
Globalism trumps R and D
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