Three state Republican lawmakers in Georgia have been stripped of their committee assignments following their decision to support President Donald Trump s coup to overturn the outcome of the presidential election. According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) implemented .
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It s been more than a week since the Georgia Senate runoff elections delivered control of Congress to Democrats.
But inside the Bartow County, Ga., Senior Center on Tuesday, a dozen teams worked in pairs to do a hand recount of more than 43,000 votes cast in the Jan. 5 runoffs.
The final margin for the races are outside the threshold for a recount, and the voters in this county an hour northwest of Atlanta are about 75% Republican so the result isn t close, or expected to change.
So why did poll workers spend a day conducting a voluntary audit at the end of an exhausting election cycle?
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Bartow County, Ga. election workers conduct a full hand count of ballots in the Jan. 5 Senate runoff between former Sen. David Perdue and Sen.-elect Jon Ossoff as part of a voluntary recount aimed at improving voter confidence. Stephen Fowler/Georgia Public Broadcasting
It s been more than a week since the Georgia Senate runoff elections delivered control of Congress to Democrats.
But inside the Bartow County, Ga., Senior Center on Tuesday, a dozen teams worked in pairs to do a hand recount of more than 43,000 votes cast in the Jan. 5 runoffs.
Georgia Republicans have reassigned three fellow GOP lawmakers who backed baseless allegations of voter fraud related to the November presidential election.
3 Georgia State Senators Lose Committee Posts Over Calls to Overturn Presidential Election
On 1/14/21 at 12:49 PM EST
According to
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan stripped senators Brandon Beach, Matt Brass and Burt Jones of their chairmanships of various committees as a new Georgia Assembly session convened this week.
Beach and Jones were removed as chairs of the transportation committee and the insurance and labor committees, respectively. According to the
Journal-Constitution, neither lawmaker will even be a ranking member on the two panels. Brass will still oversee the banking committee but was demoted from serving as a chairman on a more politically influential committee.