Ken Blackwell: Election Integrity Reform Is Key to Preventing A Socialist Takeover of America
Georgia | August 18, 2021
How much can lack of election integrity cost you? It’s $4 trillion and rising, and it’s all that stands between you and the socialist takeover of America. Unsecure elections are the gateway to socialism.
Setting aside controversies over the presidential race, post-election audits in Georgia show that at minimum Republican David Purdue should not have lost his Senate race, with ultra-left Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) ultimately won by a fraction of a point.
Perdue won in November, but with 49.73 percent in a three-way race. But in Georgia, a candidate must break 50 percent to win outright. Otherwise it goes to a runoff election. A libertarian acted as a spoiler in the race, garnering 2.3 percent. It was a safe bet that those votes would flow to Perdue and he would keep that seat in Republican hands.
But with all the shenanigans surrounding the vote in Georgia, several activists told the Republican base that Georgia’s elections are rigged and so their vote would not count. They were given high profile treatment and huge platforms, GOP base turnout predictably dropped, and Ossoff managed to grab the seat in the January runoff. Between Ossoff and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), now center-right Georgia is represented by two hardline socialist Democrats in the U.S. Senate…. (Excerpts from Black Community News)