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One Man’s Opinion: Your Vote is Secure, Your Vote Counts
By Bill Crane
Early voting for the recent November 8, 2022, General Election began on Monday, October 17th. Your ballots were secret, safe, and secure, and each vote counted.
I tend to prefer dealing with facts versus rumor and innuendo. One former president might have you believe that our election system was gamed in 2020 and that our equipment is faulty and hackable. Dominion Voting Systems (DVS) is the dominant election equipment, software, and hardware provider in twenty-eight states, as well as Puerto Rico. Also, DVS is the election vendor for Ohio, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana, Kansas, and Missouri – all states handily won by Donald J. Trump.
And here in Georgia, we have also had another highly visible candidate and public figure suggesting that Georgia’s voting system is stacked and rigged with tactics of voter suppression. Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams has softened her verbiage more recently, but still contends that the gubernatorial contest of 2018, which she lost narrowly for governor, was unfair and caused by a flawed and broken system of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.
I am, of course, going to again stick to the facts. Georgia voter turnout in every demographic set records for turnout and hard vote count totals during 2018 and again during 2020. President Joe Biden received more votes than any Democratic candidate in Georgia history, and U.S. Senator David Perdue set a similar record on the GOP side. Virtually every demographic category also saw surges in registration, with African-American registration in both cycles exceeding their percentage of the Georgia population.
Shortly after losing the governor’s race in 2018, which Ms. Abrams never actually conceded, she filed or sponsored a series
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