亚特兰大-佐治亚州州长布莱恩·坎普（Brian Kemp）周三致电唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）总统，要求其辞职“分散注意力”，并表示他专注于该州对冠状病毒大流行的反应以及即将举行的美国参议院两个席位的决赛选举。
特朗普当天早些时候表示，共和党同胞肯普是“阻挠主义者，拒绝承认我们赢得了大乔治亚州！”特朗普将该州输给了民主党人乔·拜登，但屡次做出毫无根据的指责，认为非法选票使他失去了该州的他还曾批评肯普，肯普拒绝了破坏选举结果的要求。在周三的推文中，他说肯普“应辞职”。
坎普在州议会大厦的新闻发布会上说：“所有这些事情都使人分心。我的意思是，我支持总统。我已经说过很多次了。直到11月3日为止。”
肯普说，重点应该放在该州1月5日的选举上。民主党需要赢得两个席位才能控制美国参议院。
他说：“所有这些其他事情，都在制定宪法和法律程序，我很乐意让这一程序执行。”
当佐治亚州官员继续为选举结果辩护时，这场争吵爆发了。
根据审计报告，调查人员在佐治亚州一个县的15,000多个缺席选票信封上对签名进行了审核，发现“没有欺诈性的缺席选票”。
国务卿布拉德·拉芬斯珀格（Brad Raffensperger）本月早些时候宣布，他的办公室将与乔治亚州调查局合作，对亚特兰大郊区科布县进行签名审核。副国务卿约旦·福克斯（Jordan Fuchs）当时表示，特朗普的竞选活动声称科布县（Corbb County）没有适当地进行6月初选的签名比赛。
也是共和党人的拉芬斯佩格在周一的新闻发布中说：“这项审计证明了特朗普竞选活动针对佐治亚州签名比赛过程的力量提出的唯一可信的指控。”
拜登在500万投票中以大约12,000票的微弱优势赢得了乔治亚州。
根据审计报告，调查人员从随机选择的盒子中检查了15118个缺席选票信封，大约占科布县11月大选收到的总数的10％。选择该样本量以“使结果达到99％的置信度”。
审计报告说，科布县选举部门“在执行正确的签名验证程序中具有99.99％的准确率”。
在两种情况下，审核小组确定应与选民联系以解决问题。报告说，在这两种情况下，调查人员都对选民进行了采访，并确定他们是进行投票的人。
格鲁吉亚人可以通过Raffensperger在9月建立的在线门户请求缺席选票，也可以提交申请。对于在线请求，他们提供其驾驶执照编号和出生日期以验证其身份。如果他们使用应用程序，则必须对其进行签名以进行验证。
Raffensperger说，收到申请后，县选举工作人员会将申请上的签名与选民的签名进行比较，如果一致，则邮寄选票。
在提交缺席选票之前，选民必须在外壳上签署誓言。当县级选举官员收到缺席选票时，他们必须将签名与缺席选票申请（如果存在）进行比较，并与存档签名进行比较。Raffensperger说，签名必须是一致的，但不必完全匹配。
如果签名不匹配，则会通知投票人，并可采取其他步骤来验证身份。如果签名确实匹配，则将选票与信封分开，以保护格鲁吉亚法律所保障的选票保密权。
Georgia governor pushes back on Trump's call for resignation
ATLANTA -- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday called a tweet by President Donald Trump demanding his resignation a “distraction” and said he was focused on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic and upcoming runoff elections for two U.S. Senate seats.
Trump said earlier in the day that Kemp, a fellow Republican, was an “obstructionist who refuses to admit that we won Georgia, BIG!" Trump lost the state to Democrat Joe Biden but has repeatedly made baseless accusations that illegal votes cost him the state's electoral votes. He has also previously criticized Kemp, who has rejected his demands to undermine the results. In Wednesday's tweet, he said Kemp “should resign from office.”
“All of these things are a distraction," Kemp said at a news conference at the state Capitol. “I mean, I’ve supported the president. I’ve said that many times. I worked as hard as anybody in the state on his reelection up through Nov. 3.”
Kemp said the focus should be on the state's Jan. 5 elections. Democrats need to win both seats to take control of the U.S. Senate.
“All these other things, there is a constitutional and legal process that is playing out, and I’m very comfortable letting that process play out," he said.
The spat flared as Georgia officials continued to defend the election results.
Investigators who audited the signatures on more than 15,000 absentee ballot envelopes in one Georgia county found “no fraudulent absentee ballots,” according to the audit report.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced earlier this month that his office would work with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to do the signature audit in suburban Atlanta's Cobb County. Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs said at the time that Trump's campaign had alleged that Cobb County didn't properly conduct the signature match for the June primary.
"This audit disproves the only credible allegations the Trump campaign had against the strength of Georgia’s signature match processes,” Raffensperger, also a Republican, said in a news release Monday.
Biden narrowly won Georgia by about 12,000 votes out of 5 million cast.
The investigators reviewed 15,118 absentee ballot envelopes from randomly selected boxes, about 10% of the total received in Cobb County for the November general election, according to the audit report. That sample size was chosen to “reach a 99% confidence level in the results.”
The Cobb County elections department had “a 99.99% accuracy rate in performing correct signature verification procedures,” the audit report says.
In two cases, the audit team determined that a voter should have been contacted to fix a problem. In both those cases, investigators interviewed the voters and determined they were the ones who cast the ballots, the report says.
Georgians can request absentee ballots either through an online portal that Raffensperger established in September or by submitting an application. For online requests, they provide their driver’s license number and date of birth to verify their identity. If they use an application, they must sign it for verification.
When an application is received, county election workers compare the signature on the application to the voter’s signature on file, and if it is consistent, a ballot is mailed, Raffensperger has said.
Before submitting an absentee ballot, a voter must sign an oath on an outer envelope. When county election officials receive an absentee ballot, they must compare the signature to the absentee ballot application if one exists and to the signature on file. The signatures must be consistent but don’t have to match exactly, Raffensperger has said.
If the signature doesn’t match, the voter is notified and can take other steps to verify identity. If the signature does match, the ballot is separated from the envelope to protect the right to ballot secrecy guaranteed by Georgia law.
