According to the Atlanta Constitution newspaper quoted by the Associated Press on the 18th, three lawyers filed a moral complaint against US Senator Lindsey Graham, accusing the South Carolina Republican of putting pressure on Georgia election officials to give up the absentee vote legally cast in the presidential election.
In a complaint filed Wednesday to the Senate Ethics Committee, Claire Finkelstein, Richard Painter and Walter Shaub "urged the commission to investigate whether Senator Graham implyed that Secretary of State Ravensperger had stripped Georgia voters of their right to vote by not counting legitimate votes for the presidency." They also "asked for clarification as to whether Graham threatened to have the Senate investigate georgia's vote count results, or whether steps were taken to initiate an investigation." ”
The complaint also asks Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Graham to "recuse himself from any investigation or other Senate matter related to alleged irregularities in the 2020 election" during the investigation.
According to earlier US media reports, Georgia Secretary of State and Republican Brad Raffensperger said in an interview on Monday (16th) that his Fellow Republicans have been putting constant pressure on him in recent days, in which Trump's staunch supporter Graham, in addition to questioning the validity of legal absentee votes (that is, mail-in ballots), also asked him if he could use his power to "throw away(toss)" those mail-in ballots in an attempt to reverse Trump's weak defeat in the state.
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