Two days ago reliable polling had Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler leading in the Georgia Senate runoffs.

But minutes before press time on Wednesday afternoon, the president, as promised, vetoed the NDAA Defense funding bill. Now Democrats can accuse Republicans of abandoning military members and ignoring defense imperatives for political reasons. The president may be overriden by Congress on this or not, nobody is quite sure of the numbers. If the numbers that passed the bill hold, Trump will be overriden. But a lot of Republicans don't want to tangle with him right now and could abstain or stick with the president. Even those who voted for the bill in the first place could switch to spare Trump the humiliation.

Before that today, the Georgia Secretary of State woke up and this happened. FNC: "Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined fellow Republicans Wednesday in calling for an end to allowing all voters in the state to submit absentee ballots without providing justification for why they cannot vote in person.

'The no-excuse system voted into law in 2005 -- long before most of you, if not all of you, long before I was in the General Assembly -- it makes no sense when we have three weeks of in-person early voting available," Raffensberger said. "It opens the door to potential illegal voting, especially in light of the federal rules that deny us the ability to keep voter lists, registration files, clean.' "

A Georgia Secretary of State spox was asked why the move if all was peachy? He gave a befuddled response.

.@BeeForGeorgia asks @GaSecofState's office why they would eliminate no excuse absentee voting in the state if there was no wide spread fraud.

Ryan Germany responds "It's harder to provide confidence in that process." @FOX5Atlanta

— Brooke Zauner (@BrookeZaunerTV) December 23, 2020

Just prior to the move on no excuse, Raffensperger said on Monday that his office sent out 8,000 letters to people who had moved out of Georgia, but had asked for absentee ballots for the Jan. 5 elections. Finally, a preemptive strike.

"Qualified Georgians and only Georgians are allowed to vote in our elections," Raffensperger said. "I have said many times that I will not tolerate out of state voters attempting to undermine the integrity of the vote in Georgia."

And the week before this, Raffensperger said that there will be a statewide signature match to ensure election integrity. "This team will work to restore faith in the process and put these rumors to bed, once and for all, for all. Before an absentee ballot is ever cast, a signature match is confirmed twice. Not once. Twice." If that had been done nationwide in early November, the president would be picking out new drapes for the Oval Office.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on December 24, 2020. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.

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