Based on the false narrative about voter fraud spread by Trump and his allies, election denialism still holds sway in Georgia.
- Key Republicans—including Burt Jones, now the state’s lieutenant governor, and then GOP State Chair David Shafer—attempted to subvert the results by submitting fake Electoral College documents to Congress as part of the January 6, 2021 certification process.
- On January 2, 2021, Trump and several of his key aides spoke by phone with Secretary of State Raffensperger for over an hour, pressuring him to “find 11,780 votes” so that the president could declare victory in Georgia.
- On December 28, 2020, Jeffrey Clark, a Trump loyalist who worked at the Department of Justice at the time, drafted a letter pushing officials in Georgia to hold a special session of the state legislature in order to investigate supposed “irregularities” in the 2020 presidential election.
- Under pressure from GOP activists still claiming the election was stolen, Republicans rammed through a sprawling election reform law in 2021 that shortened the time for requesting a ballot by mail, allowed only restricted use of ballot drop boxes, and made it illegal to give food or water to voters waiting in line near a polling place.
- On August 14, 2023, a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia indicted Trump and 18 allies on charges of violating 16 state laws in their conspiracy to sabotage the results of the 2020 presidential election. The indictment alleges that “the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia’s presidential election result,” as Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis put it in announcing a total of 41 counts against the defendants, including 13 against Trump himself.
- Demands from disgruntled Trump loyalists to address unfounded claims of voter fraud have led to the passage of additional new voter suppression measures in Georgia. In May 2024, Republican Governor Brian Kemp signed a law that could make it easier to remove people from the voting rolls through challenges to voter eligibility.
- In April 2024, Pete Skandalakis, a Republican who leads a nonpartisan state agency in Georgia, said that he would investigate the role Lieutenant Governor Jones played in 2020 when he was a state senator and served as a fake elector.