Georgia’s Conservative Struggles and the Fight for Election Integrity

In Geor­gia, find­ing true con­ser­v­a­tive lead­er­ship is becom­ing increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult, as the state faces grow­ing con­cerns over its polit­i­cal land­scape. In Geor­gia’s leg­is­la­ture, “con­ser­v­a­tive” Repub­li­cans push a midyear bud­get that focus­es on increas­es for men­tal health, school secu­ri­ty, and law enforce­ment, yet waste­ful spend­ing on projects like the $650M water sys­tem for Hyundai. The state’s shift toward Demo­c­rat val­ues has raised alarms, par­tic­u­lar­ly over elec­tion secu­ri­ty. Calls to return to paper bal­lots and human-con­trolled vot­ing are nec­es­sary as tech­nol­o­gy pro­gress­es. How­ev­er, elec­tion offi­cials, includ­ing Brad Raf­fensperg­er, resist these efforts, push­ing cost­ly con­tracts and defend­ing the cur­rent sys­tem as the most secure. The fight for real elec­tion integri­ty in Geor­gia faces sig­nif­i­cant road­blocks, leav­ing cit­i­zens frus­trat­ed with the lack of progress on true reform.

• It is eas­i­er to find a snipe than to find a real con­ser­v­a­tive repub­li­can in Geor­gia. 
• MAGA starts at home. Start in your city, start in your coun­ty, start in your schools. 
• Par­ent teacher meet­ing erupts over LGBTQ naked pride books being giv­en to Kinder­garten­ers. The book is titled the Rain­bow Parade. All over Amer­i­ca par­ents are tired of the indoc­tri­na­tion of our chil­dren. 
• In the state of GA we can only put in a bud­get for antic­i­pat­ed tax, and when we go back into leg­isla­tive ses­sion imme­di­ate­ly they pass a midyear bud­get. The “con­ser­v­a­tive” repub­li­cans are push­ing the chips all in under the guise of school secu­ri­ty, men­tal health, and increased law enforce­ment. By state law you have to rec­on­cile the old bud­get before pass­ing a new bud­get. As soon as the leg­isla­tive ses­sion starts and if there are more tax­es come in than expect­ed, they spend it. They write the rec­on­cil­i­a­tion bud­get and push in all the chips. Every year in GA, the politi­cians pay peo­ple off, $500 here and there, a lit­tle pat on the head. $650M in the bud­get for the water sys­tem for Hyundai in addi­tion to $1B in tax abate­ments but we can’t scrap the $140M that was spent on these vot­ing machines. Tom Homan push­es back when he is asked about what it is going to cost for depor­ta­tions, he responds with what is the val­ue. So what is the price of secur­ing our elec­tions? 
• GA has grown right into being democ­rats. That is why we are not the red state they want to lead you to believe. 
• We have a seri­ous prob­lem in GA. we need to go to paper bal­lots that are hand count­ed in the precincts. The rea­son we need to get rid of the machines is because AI and tech­nol­o­gy is going to move so fast and we need to human­ize our elec­tions. This is the one thing that we need to NOW give con­trol back to the peo­ple. They are want­i­ng to test votes online. 
• SB189, get­ting rid of the QR codes. $4M for bat­tery back­ups. Josh McK­oon, Brad Carv­er, Salleigh Grubbs when they come out to tell you that they are work­ing on elec­tion integri­ty and fight­ing for you. Remem­ber we were get­ting rid of the QR code and we showed them that it was uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. Now Brad Raf­fensperg­er was say­ing we need to scrap SB189 because we are at the end of this con­tract. And why would we take the last 2 years of this cost­ly con­tract to scrap all of these machines. We could use $15M and use the $32M to use on hur­ri­cane relief. The com­mit­tees are set up to make rec­om­men­da­tions to the full sen­ate but there is no one at the com­mit­tee. Raf­fensperg­er is telling the com­mit­tee that the only areas where there were errors were with human marked bal­lots and the machines are more accu­rate. They will lead you to believe that this was the most secure and most accu­rate elec­tion of all time. Clint Dixon is the chair­man and has to be there, no one else cares. Any­one could sit in a com­mit­tee hear­ing at any giv­en time. Brad Raf­fensperg­er is quick to say that there is all this great tech­nol­o­gy in elec­tion sys­tems. But we don’t want the new tech­nol­o­gy, we want to go old school. The elec­tion stuff that the GOP is not going any­where. There isn’t any elec­tion bill that is being worked on because we can’t even get the fund­ing for SB189 to remove the QR code.