Georgia's secretary of state slams 'dishonest actors,' announces investigations into third-party groups
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spoke before reporters Monday morning at the state capitol building in Atlanta and announced that his office has opened investigations into four third-party groups that he claimed are "working to register people in other states to vote here in Georgia."
However, Raffensperger also maintained the 2020 presidential election was the most secure election in the state's history and slammed against those peddling misinformation surrounding it.
"Once this recount is complete, everyone in Georgia will be able to have even more confidence in the results of our elections, despite the massive amounts of misinformation that is being spread by dishonest actors," Raffensperger said, adding the state's machine recount is on schedule to finish by the midnight Wednesday deadline.

"There are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump supporters with fantastic claims, half-truths, misinformation, and frankly, they're misleading the president, as well, apparently," he added.
Ahead of Senate runoffs Jan. 5, Raffensperger also warned, "Anyone telling you to boycott an election is not on your side."
Gabriel Sterling, the statewide voting system implementation manager, blasted lawsuits questioning the credibility of the state's electoral process as "fever dreams"and shot down the conspiracies about the election including that Dominion's voting machines flipped votes.
"The ridiculous things claimed in these lawsuits are just that, they're insanities, fever dream, made up, internet cabal," he said. "Nothing was shipped from overseas. No votes were switched. We did a hand audit that proved no votes were switched."
Sterling said he feels like he's "playing a game of Whac-A-Mole"-- that every time they shoot down one unfounded claim, another "new crazier one" pops up.
-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan







