Georgia's elections were free and fair, Gov.-elect Brian Kemp said Tuesday, rejecting the continuing arguments from Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams that his win came after thousands of Georgians were purged from the election rolls.
"The election has been certified," Kemp, who now serves as Georgia's Secretary of State, told Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
"This is indeed over and a I'm looking forward to serving hard-working Georgians and that includes all of them by the way."
Meanwhile, he said it is unfair for Abrams to blame the election system for her loss, especially wth local officials following the law about how things are conducted on Election Day.
"In Georgia we have secured accessible fair elections," he said. "We make it easy to vote and hard to cheat. We saw the easy to vote part. We had 1.4 million more voters in this election than we did in the last governor's race. A historic turnout.
"We have a million more people on the rolls because I pushed for and implemented online voter registration where people could register to vote 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
He added that if Abrams and her "activist groups" had used the online system, "they they wouldn't have had as many problems as they did with folks that they were registering."
Kemp also called Abrams' claims that fewer polling locations were set up, particularly in urban areas, a "mistruth."
"County election officials, the local election boards have the sole responsibility for how many polling locations they have and where they are," said Kemp. "That has been the rule of law and the way it works in Georgia under Republican and Democrat secretaries of state."
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