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The Saga continues as Republican state senators in Georgia are calling for the delay of electoral vote counting from January 6th, for an additional 6 days.
In a letter signed by the senators who are about 18 in numbers, they are requesting that Vice President Mike Pence, officially delay the count, so that state legislators may be able to hold special sessions to resolve issues relating to the State's electors.
Sen. Brandon Beach, who is one of Georgia's senators requesting for the delay, said, “There’s about 16 or 18 of us now that signed this letter to the Vice President … asking him to delay the electoral vote for 10 to 12 days,” according to EPT.
“We were going to get it to him tomorrow morning,” Beach said, adding that more Senators might still sign on.
Beach says that he is concerned about the integrity of the election. “People are saying yeah there is something here, there’s something that just doesn’t pass the smell test—that there was some irregularities, there was some impropriety going on in the voting process,” he said.
"Ballots and voting machines need to be forensically audited, especially in Fulton county," said Beach.
"The biggest concerns he has relate to the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. It appears that a state election monitor was absent for a part of the counting process and that Republican poll watchers were led to believe the counting was over when it in fact wasn’t."
According to Beach, unless Mr Pence considers their request to postpone the counting, there's nothing the State's senators can do to ensure the right electors are approved.
He said, “If the Vice President is able to take our letters to postpone, then we would be in session and we could discuss what we could maybe do as a state senate in a state house.
“Right now, we can’t do anything because we’re not in session,” he added.
The State of Georgia is one of the six swing states where the outcome of last November's presidential election in the US, is still being contested following claims of fraud by President Donald Trump.