..Lindsay Graham asked if Georgia Sec of State had to power to...

..Lindsay Graham asked if Georgia Sec of State had to power to reject legally casted votes ! Desperation , disgraceful.  

And this would not help Perdue in his Georgia Senate race - be ready for a prospect of a Dem controlled Senate - that may bring Gold back strongly.
Trump running out of time to overturn results

Bloomberg
Joe Biden is moving closer to formally claiming the White House as states push ahead with certifying election results despite Donald Trump's efforts to challenge the vote.

Although Trump's campaign and his supporters have mounted legal challenges, Georgia is on track to certify its election results on Friday, with Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada expected to follow next week, Arizona by November 30 and Wisconsin by December 1.
Unless courts intervene, validation by those states would make it difficult for Trump to continue to claim that he, and not Biden, won the presidential election.

"This is going to be a series of dominoes that fall sort of ineluctably toward the conclusion that we already know is true, which is that Biden is the winner of these states and is the president-elect," said Richard Pildes, a New York University professor of constitutional law. "This will be the formal legal step that cements that."

States make their election results official through a certification after what's known as a canvass to account for every ballot cast and to confirm that every valid vote was counted, according to the US Election Assistance Commission. Procedures and deadlines for certifying votes vary by state.

Certified totals can change if a state allows recounts after certification, which Georgia, Michigan and Nevada do, or if there is a challenge to the election. But certification amounts to a declaration of a winner, and the winning candidate will assume office unless a court intervenes, said Michael Morley, an assistant law professor at Florida State University who's worked on election emergencies and post-election litigation.

Certification is also important because it triggers the appointment of state electors to the electoral college.


Graham facing ethics complaint over Georgia ballots question

AP
Three attorneys have filed an ethics complaint against US Senator Lindsey Graham, accusing the South Carolina Republican of pressuring a Georgia elections official to toss out legally cast absentee votes in the presidential race.

In a complaint filed on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, Claire Finkelstein, Richard Painter and Walter Shaub “urge the committee to investigate whether Senator Graham suggested that Secretary Raffensperger disenfranchise Georgia voters by not counting votes lawfully cast for the office of president”.
They also “demand clarity as to whether Senator Graham has threatened anyone with a Senate investigation of the Georgia vote tally and or taken steps to initiate such an investigation”.

The complaint also requests that Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, “be recused from any investigation or other Senate matter relating to alleged irregularities in the 2020 election” while any probe of his comments is ongoing.

The complaint stems from comments by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who said this week that Graham asked him whether he had the power to reject certain absentee ballots, a question Raffensperger interpreted as a suggestion to toss out legally cast votes. Raffensperger told The Washington Post he’s faced rising pressure from fellow Republicans who want to see Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow lead in the state reversed.

The Associated Press has not declared a winner in Georgia, where Biden leads President Donald Trump by 0.3 percentage points. There is no mandatory recount law in Georgia, but state law provides that option to a trailing candidate if the margin is less than 0.5 percentage points. It is AP’s practice not to call a race that is – or is likely to become – subject to a recount.