Georgia Election Official Who Defied Donald Trump Echoes His Voter Fraud Fearmongering

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, the Republican election official who defied Donald Trump in 2021 echoed Trump’s fearmongering about noncitizen voting.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined other Republican officials in Washington to call for states to ban undocumented immigrants from casting ballots.

“I believe that no matter where you’re elected – for president, school board, county commissioner – that we should require only Americans vote in our elections,” Raffensperger said Wednesday at the National Press Club.

“With the open border policy that we’ve had in place for so many years now, voters are concerned about noncitizen voting,” he said.

Raffensperger spoke at an event hosted by Americans for Citizen Voting, a group that advocates for states to amend their constitutions to prevent noncitizens from voting in state and local elections. Such amendments will be on the ballot in eight states this November.

Noncitizens are already prohibited from voting in federal elections, and experts say violations are rare. But several liberal cities, including ones in Maryland, Vermont and California, as well as Washington, D.C., allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.

Raffensperger’s D.C. press conference came as Trump and other top Republicans falsely warn that undocumented immigrants could sway November’s election in Democrats’ favor.

“Non citizen Illegal Migrants are getting the right to vote, being pushed by crooked Democrat Politicians who are not being stopped by an equally dishonest Justice Department,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in July . “That’s how they get an incapacitated moron like Joe Biden elected.”

Trump’s allies in Congress have said they won’t support a government funding bill this month