60 Minutes: Have to say, Raffensperger and Sterling

[BeyondGeography]

two GA Republicans, need to be appreciated. They have a strong sense, one might even say unshakeable, about the sanctity of the public space. This is primordial, and we are lost without it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. The crux of democracy is the peaceful transfer of power. That depends on fair trustworthy elections

Thanks for their role in helping ensure that.

Too some extent.

Raffensperger was instrumental in voter suppression in Georgia and voter roll purges I have read.

[struggle4progress]

2. Adult politics is a game of ever-shifting alliances

[unblock]

4. Yeah, let's not go overboard here. He only appears to be a hero because Donnie asked the impossible

All evidence suggests that if overturning the election involved only a manageable amount of cheating, he would have done it.

Raffie only refused because he knew he couldn't invent enough "fraud" to get away with overturning the election.

[LisaL]

3. My question is, how could Raffenspperger have voted for Trump?

NT

[mucifer]

6. Exactly, so many repubs only leave the party when something personal happens. He saw NO Corruption

before this? That's bullcrap. He still voted for trump.

[mobeau69]

7. How could anyone?

[LisaL]

10. We have a lot of citizens who are deluded.

This guy is clearly not one of them. Yet he still voted for Trump.

[Karadeniz]

5. He's currently trying to toughen voter ID laws and something else to make voting in GA more

Difficult.

[BeyondGeography]

8. I'm talking about avoiding the abyss

By all means, replace them with Democrats. But thank Buddha they have their limits. The election conformed to their rules and they stood by the result, in the face of some very serious intimidation. We shouldn’t take these things for granted.

[Karadeniz]

12. They're sure light years ahead of Cruz etal.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. THAT is unconscionable and we have STACEY and the courts to fight that bullshit.

[MontanaFarmer]

11. Raffensperger knew the results were valid.

Doesn't mean he couldn't have played along, fanned the flame awhile, in the name of winning a couple senate seats. He didn't. Sterling pushed back early and hard. I agree with the OP, whatever we may disagree with these men about, they are honorable and conducted 2 high-profile, tightly contested elections with huge implications and pressure from the most powerful office in the world, and conducted them seamlessly.