In the wake of his loss in the Presidential Election in November, Donald Trump spewed conspiracy theories about dead people voting in Georgia.
Trump claimed that 5,000 dead voters participated in Georgia’s election. However, election investigators found just four absentee ballots from voters who died, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. All of them were sent in by relatives of the deceased.
Trump pressured Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the election results by claiming widespread voter fraud. Raffensberger said during a recent telephone town hall that it was simply not true.
“What I tell people is what really happened in Georgia because we proved that none of that was what happened,” he said.
Trump ended up losing the state by about 12,000 votes. Before the 2020 election, Georgia hadn’t voted for a Democrat since 1992.
Now, the attorney general’s office is set to look into cases where ballots were returned in the name of deceased voters. The State Election Board can hand out fines between $100 and $5,000 per violation.
