Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is facing a powerful defamation lawsuit arising from false claims he made about a Republican election volunteer in his 2021 book "Integrity Counts." He wrote and published that a video presentation of unsupervised ballot counting at State Farm Arena in Atlanta had been "Doctored," "Chopped up," "Cut," "Sliced up," and "Deceptively sliced and edited so that it appeared to show the exact opposite of reality," allegedly including a "Slice of video that had removed the clear evidence" that the law had been followed.
Jacki Pick, a Republican volunteer on the Trump legal team, was the sole presenter of the video to Georgia legislators to show that Republican election observers' claims about unsupervised ballot counting in Georgia's largest county were true.
He had faced a deluge of criticism from election integrity advocates over various decisions he and his office made in the run up to and aftermath of the 2020 election.
After several Democrat counties poorly administered primary elections in 2020, Raffensperger voluntarily embraced "Zuck Bucks," the scheme by which Democrat operatives took over government election operations in the blue areas of swing states and helped run Get Out The Vote programs.
Corasaniti without evidence characterizes the video presentation made by Pick as having included "Debunked claims of election fraud." In fact, her presentation showed undeniable evidence of unsupervised ballot counting in a county known for troubled election administration.
Again, Raffensperger is being sued not for his work as an election official but for his personal 2021 book in which he defamed Pick.
"Ms. Pick never once asked Mr. Raffensperger to make statements regarding the 2020 election; her only concern is in repairing her damaged reputation caused by false statements made by Mr. Raffensperger in 2021, a full year later. Ms. Pick will hold Mr. Raffensperger accountable for making false statements about her, and the fact he's more interested in diverting attention to a 2020 election narrative that portrays him favorably and away from addressing his 2021 defamatory statements shows he is extremely concerned that justice will be served," said Bill Whitehill, a member of her legal team.
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