Georgia Republicans braced for the worst when President Trump recently teased a major announcement on election security. Given his sordid history of disputing Georgia's 2020 election results — and the role those claims may have played in Republicans losing the state’s two Senate seats — many feared he would once again target the state's elections. During his primetime TV address earlier this month, Trump stopped short of declaring Georgia's current senators illegitimate, but he continued casting doubt on the integrity of American elections. Despite his frequent tirades and claims of stolen elections, every audit and lawsuit has shown that our elections are fair and legitimate. If any compelling evidence existed proving otherwise, his lawyers would have presented it in the courts long ago, but they never did because it doesn’t exist. This comes against the backdrop of many on the political Left calling Georgia’s voting laws Jim Crow 2.0 and an attempt to suppress voting. While the Left has griped about our voting laws and Trump has been busy re-litigating old grievances, new reports show that Georgia has one of the country's best and most trustworthy elections systems. “In an era when confidence in elections is too often shaped by partisan rhetoric rather than proven results, Georgia has taken a different approach: Build the nation’s gold standard for election administration and prove its success at every election,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger noted in a recent…
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