the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who became the center of controversy with former president trump critical of claims that there was election fraud across the state, he was taken off the election board, or his position was. why? guest: he will no longer have a boat, he will have a role, but not a vote. that is pushback on secretary of state raffensperger's stance on the elections that they were free and fair. he has been one of the most outspoken defenders of the election. of course, he oversaw the election, so he had an integral role in the 2020 election in georgia. he defied former president trump's calls to find enough votes to overturn the election. he also infuriated many republicans for not promoting concerns about widespread election fraud, saying over and over again that there was no evidence of any sort of systemic irregularities in georgia's vote. so this is payback from republican lawmakers who will now have technically a majority. republicans already had a majority on the five-member board, but now the legislature. three of the five members of this legislature has

. >> and joining me is georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. thank you for coming on. it sounds like to a lot of americans that donald trump was trying to commit voter fraud in that phone call with you. what can you tell us about the status of that investigation? >> it is an ongoing investigation and that's a fulton county investigation and cooperating with the district attorney and i assume they take testimony from several people, not just our office but many people, not just in georgia but other areas and it is their investigation and we are not privy of who they call and supporting the efforts and providing the information they need from our office. >> just to but on the that up r, when they say your office is not cooperating you are saying that's false? >> that's false. we have counsel for the secretary of state's office in lieu of the attorney general's office and they can coordinate and ask whatever questions they want and need and fully cooperate obviously. >> you said everything in the georgia election was done by the books you are a supporter of the law that y

. >>> joining us now is georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. secretary, you just heard the report thank you for being here there's controversy on the top of mind for many people. >> thank you for having me i'm glad to clear up the misunderstandings. >> secretary, in addition to being an elected official you are a business owner and an engineer why what are you hearing from corporate leaders and business owners? are you worried about the impact on the business community long term >> georgia rolled out the welcome bat for corporations to locate and expand businesses in georgia probably back in the early '60s relocate from birmingham years ago with an unstable political environment in birmingham and excited to have such great corporations in georgia. obviously what i wish is every business owner before they make decisions would read the bill. it is not what's been represented in the social media and also in the political narrative. >> secretary, in all fairness, i understand what you wish but what are you hearing i'm certain you're hearing from le

that was coming from the secretary of state of georgia, brad raffensperger.the former georgia republican senator from georgia to let her respond. she said yeah, i'll come on. senator, good to have you. >> thank you, neil. great to be with you. >> neil: he called you a fake trumper. is what did you think of that? >> well, that's a joke. everyone knows that's not true. i have a great relationship with president trump. we talk regularly. i was his biggest supporter in the senate. i had 100% voting record with him, campaigned with him, for him and proud to support him. you heard or top elections official in georgia exacting a political attack at a time when georgia voters are concerned about election integrity. this was the point of my letter. >> neil: we lost that feed. hope to get it back. an investigation that she requested into the conduct of secretary state brad raffensperger was not granted by the attorney general, chris carr. so we don't know exactly where this goes. keep in mind that she is entertaining another run for that seat. but it's very, very much

allows expanded early voting but let's talk about it all with secretary of state republican brad raffenspergersay that this law is necessary to boost election integrity, but as we saw november's presidential election in georgia you had record turnout you and the governor and the lieutenant governor said repeatedly there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would have changed the election in any way. why did the election laws need to be changed? it seemed like your elections and the runoffs in january were a huge success. >> going back in history, stacey abrams never conceded defeat and we had the same thing happen in 2020, this time on the republican side, and in both cases they -- the elections were run fairly, honestly and accurately, but there's a shot to the confidence of voters and the accuracy, and so on one side the left was saying it wasn't a fair fight and then in 2020 then the republicans were saying the same thing so now we really needed to address confidence-building measures, and i looked at the bill. there's many good things in the bill and i've also heard your beginnin

last year, making an emergency order from brad raffensperger shouldn't have happened because they arey are illegal and we legalize drop boxes which people may have not wanted but they are now legal. when you have outside organizations putting in drop boxes, they only focused on bourbon county and democratic other counties in our state didn't have any. so what we have now is a way for people to drop off the ballot if they want to. but they fail to say is they forget that you can still drop it in the mailbox at any point in time, you still have friday and saturday voting which you can go to the polling place and put your ballot in a drop box. it's how you want to spend it and if you are willing to see they believe it to be suppression, that the narrative they spin. able to spend the last four years in georgia lying to the american people about what happened when she is been the biggest proponent of voter suppression because she is trying to say the election is not fair. that's on stacey abrams. >> sandra: it makes you wonder what the next couple of years are shaping up to look like, 202

liz: georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger was very upset with how the law is being characterized's listen to him and then game sterling, i would like your reaction. >> stacey abrams has already protested the word jim crow and found out that w plays well is like she pull test of the word voter suppression in 2014 this is your hassle for making money over $100 million now with her voter suppression household which is not based in reality. >> nobody has read the 98 page bill and accepting a spoon to a baby, what iof find interestings the mainstream media who criticized and examined every claim of president trump take similar claims from this president stacey abrams and accepts it, that is unfair and wrong is to dismiss to the people in georgia. liz: what you make of that. >> obviously both are true, joe biden was given his talking points by centers by american progress and whoever else is pulling the puppet strings and he said things that were untrue, full pinocchio according to the washington post and as a result corporate america is terrified, they are terrified of getting the wok

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of democratic and republican ideas, but some of the punitive, you know, responses to taking brad raffenspergerk that was a necessary step. >> again, it was brad raffensperger's staff member, gabriel sterling, who went to the microphones weeks before the insurrection and warned that, quote, somebody would get shot, somebody indeed did get shot at the insurrection. all of the heat on the right was around the role of incorruptible election officials, and it wasn't just raffensperger. it turned out, betsy, that this election and the ability to ultimately have a transfer of power rested in people like raffensperger in michigan and pennsylvania and other places but this part of the law, i don't think, has had its sort of justifiable attention and scrutiny. this was a power play to punish a republican who couldn't be corrupted, despite that phone call that i think most of us have probably listened to from donald trump after the election. >> and there seems to be no question what exactly is going on here. what's perhaps the only thing that's just a little bit surprising about this georgia legislation

brad raffensperger on his take on everything going on.o yesterday we heard president biden use the time "jim crow" to describe your voting laws as well. your thoughts. >> i would encourage president biden to read the bill. look at the bill. it's very measured and what it does. there's sensible reforms. we're moving away from signature match. we've been sued by the democratic party and republicans over signature match. we're moving to an objective measure of using drivers license number and also your birthday, day, month and year. very objective. being used right new in both minnesota, nebraska, blue states, red states. good measure. >> charles: it's interesting that a lot of comparisons have been made with the georgia voting law versus colorado's. for the most part, it streams similarities between both. so many are wondering why do you think that this stands out? the only thing that i can see, even in most liberal media outlets was the notion that well, this just came so quickly after the georgia election it was a pay back. this is you tr

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in december of 2020, meaning after the presidential election, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger and advocacy groups that use line warming as a loophole to conduct political activity in violation of state law. political organizations or advocacy groups will use the give-ways or gifts known as line warming to inappropriately influence voters in the crucial final moments before they cast their ballots. such efforts violate the protections georgia law has placed on campaigning near a polling location or voting line. that rational explains the change in the law which then added this line -- nor shall any person give, offer to give, or participate in the giving of any money or gifts, including, but not limited, to food and drink to an elector. adding this code section should not be construed to prohibit a poll officer from making available self-service water from an unattended reaccept tackle to an elector waiting in line. new york and montana have same laws in their election codes. so is the heat that this particular provision getting warranted? joining me now, chief operating office

just look at georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger, a republican. he refused to go along with trump's election lies and has since been condemned by the state republican party, removed him as chair of the georgia election board, apparently that's what you get for defending democracy in the gop. joining us now are erin haines, editor at large at the 19th and yamiche alcindor. thank you both very much for coming to the "last word." erin haines, what's up with the republican party, and how is it that these folks who cheered on the insurrectionists are now pulling in money hand over fist? >> well, what we're seeing is something president trump said the big lie is financially lucrative and so now you have folks like representative marjorie taylor greene, folks like josh hawley and others able to raise money off of this pulling from president trump's play book because they know they can raise money. they know whether this is going to translate into votes when these people are up for election remains to be seen. at least for now it is something that is fina

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the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who became the center of controversy with former presidentritical of claims that there was election fraud across the state, he was taken off the election board, or his position was. why? guest: he will no longer have a boat, he will have a role, but not a vote. that is pushback on secretary of state raffensperger's stance on the elections that they were free and fair. he has been one of the most outspoken defenders of the election. of course, he oversaw the election, so he had an integral role in the 2020 election in georgia. he defied former president trump's calls to find enough votes to overturn the election. he also infuriated many republicans for not promoting concerns about widespread election fraud, saying over and over again that there was no evidence of any sort of systemic irregularities in georgia's vote. so this is payback from republican lawmakers who will now have technically a majority. republicans already had a majority on the five-member board, but now the legislature. three of the five members of this legislature has a decis

the lie would have removed republican brad raffensperger from a decision making place. so it's just disingenuous to say the law is so good, we're so proud of it. if it's that good major league baseball wouldn't have moved their game. so it wasn't true in my view was the biggest flaw. >> he event went back to the old republicans saved historically black colleges. that is not republicans saving black colleges. they keep on using that line. it was -- i was surprised to be honest with you. this was standard republican pabalm. this could have been delivered by tom cotton or pat lee. i'm not sure what his purpose was. his audience to me appeared to be conservative white republicans who are angry over certain things, of cancel culture and the same sort of cultural nods that we hear on fox news. and he was out here to throw them a lifeline. it was disappointing. he had an opportunity to really speak about his work on the -- you know, on the george floyd act and what he's trying to do to offer his own amendments to it. he didn't. he just came out and talked about the amendments

the retaliation against brad raffensperger is a real red flag in this legislation.no need to guild the lily then, if you look at the intention and the possible implications of this, you don't need to engage in the over-the-top rhetoric like jim crow 2.0. jim crow was a very specific things. it was -- and you laid out what it was. this bill has a lot of flaws. but i think the danger of over the top rhetoric is the risk of discrediting the attacks. and you're seeing this right now, the blowback by the republicans is more that you're misrepresenting this bill. and governor kemp, and i'm not a fan, lays out the differences between the georgia law and the new york law and my concern is that what's happening is is that some of the critics are losing their credibility and will make it harder, not easier to fight against some of these voter suppression laws across the country. and when you go to defcon 1 or defcon 5, i always get those confused, and say, this is jim crow 2.0, where do you go when you have an overt attempt to overturn elections or an overt attempt to suppres

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when the coronavirus pandemic hit last year, georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger mailed absentee ballot applications to every member in the state ahead of june primary. this led to absentee voting by record numbers of georgians. when mr. raffensperger didn't mail applications again for the general election, several local government agencies did so, particularly in georgia's large urban counties, a move that is now being made illegal by the law created by the legislature and signed by governor kemp. with the loss of automatically mailed applications, some voters will invariably not request a ballot since the application served as a reminder to people they were eligible to vote. keep in mind, it wasn't the ballot that was sent without solicitation. it was an application that had to be returned by the voter before they would actually receive the ballot. it was a reminder, one that the georgia legislature would like to drop. speaking of dropping, drop boxes still exist for absentee ballots, but barely. for the 2020 election in georgia, there were 94 drop boxes across