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Georgia just audited its voter rolls — and debunked Trump’s election lies. Once again, state audits of elections proves Trump and the whole MAGA movement is one big morass of lies, deception and attempts to manipulate the voters into believing their votes not sacrosanct, and open to tampering. None of that is true. They are looking at us in the eye and blatantly lying about everything because in the next election their asses will be swept to the curb by the way they have screwed up our economy, ruined our healthcare system, made food, gas, electricity, housing unaffordable, and slashed Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and veteran’s benefits, not to mention a useless war where our soldiers are being slain so Trump and his family can make greater fortunes by manipulating the oil market. Their only hope for success is to inhibit the vote. Every day we see reports of some scheme to either deny the right to vote altogether, or post armed goons at the polls to frighten us away. Don’t fall for Republican lies any longer, America has suffered enough. See this – Boldface mine: Georgia just audited its voter rolls — and debunked Trump’s election lies Opinion by Ja'han Jones • 7h • 2 min read © Carlos Barria / REUTERS President Donald Trump’s lies about noncitizen voters fraudulently swaying elections have served as the basis for his administration’s and his allies’ illiberal efforts to interfere with the electoral process. And they were just debunked — yet again — by a state audit. The latest audit came out of Georgia — arguably the key focus of Trump’s election lies — and disproves the president’s baseless allegations. As Channel 2 Action News in Georgia reported Tuesday, the recent state audit found that Georgia’s voter rolls were 99.9% accurate — and that the problems the auditors did find mainly boiled down to human error. Channel 2 Action News has obtained an audit of the state’s voter rolls and found that the state’s election system is generally effective in preventing non-citizens from registering to vote. The audit estimated that no more than 0.1% of voter registration records would have allowed someone to vote despite an unverified identity, invalid address, or citizenship-related issue. Channel 2 investigative reporter Justin Gray obtained the audit that also showed there is still some work to be done, finding there were significant instances where people who appeared to be non-citizens were placed into active voter status because of human error and control weaknesses. Crucially, the outlet reported: The auditors reviewed roughly 8 million voter registrations and concluded that problems they identified represented a very small fraction of the voter rolls. It did not find evidence of widespread fraud Former Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer has become a vocal critic of MAGA world’s election fraud lies after being targeted by them himself. Richer, who contributes to the election-focused website Declare News, noted Wednesday that Georgia’s audit adds to nearly two dozen states that have conducted similar reviews over the past two years finding scant evidence to support Trump’s claims of widespread noncitizen voter fraud. Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has embraced illiberal voter suppression tactics in the past — including voter roll purges — but he has also fought election denialism from MAGA world and resisted efforts to hand sensitive voter data over to the Trump administration as it continues to spread its anti-immigrant conspiracy theories. In a statement Tuesday, Raffensperger touted the audit’s findings: “Georgia runs the cleanest elections in the country because we’ve spent years doing the hard work to secure our systems, verify our voter rolls, and make sure only eligible American citizens can vote. Now the General Assembly confirms what Georgians already know: our safeguards work, our voter lists are best in class, and Georgia elections are free, fair, and fast.” I scour news reports of Trump/Republican tyranny so you won’t have to. For free access to other articles simply enter email address. For more free articles about Trump/Republican tyranny; https://mcdermottm.substack.com/p/georgia-just-audited-its-voter-rolls