A conservative former Georgia lieutenant governor blasted the state's Trump-backed election board after it decided to have ballots hand-counted, saying the panel "got their way" after months of "carrying Donald Trump's water."
Geoff Duncan, a vocal anti-Trump Republican who this week said Trump was responsible for Jan. 6 and death threats against Duncan's family, joined CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Friday night to talk about the much-derided board decision.
The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-2 to require that county election boards hand count ballots and compare their results to electronic voting machine tallies. Critics have argued the move was designed to deliver the state to Trump on Nov. 5.
Duncan accused the board of "ankle-biting at solutions in search of a problem."
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"And today they injected the ultimate asterisk mark into our November election," he said. "They are able to change laws to follow conspiracy theories instead of reality."
Duncan said the new process will slow down the counting process and "inject a human element to it," which he called the "secret sauce" to conspiracy theories: doubt.
"They've planted the ultimate seed of doubt," he said.
The antidote to doubt is counting the ballots in a crisp, clear and clean manner. However, he said, "These guys aren't interested in winning this election fair and square."
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