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By Katherine Fung
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Donald Trump co-defendant Harrison Floyd wants to personally recount 528,777 ballots that were cast in Georgia's Fulton County in the 2020 election.
Floyd, the former head of Black Voices for Trump, has requested copies of all the county ballots from the last presidential election to prove that election fraud cost Trump a second term.
Floyd's legal team has sought to prove that Trump was the actual winner of the 2020 election as part of its unique defense in the election interference case in Fulton County. Floyd is one of the 18 co-defendants who, along with Trump, were indicted last August by Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis in a sweeping racketeering case. Floyd, who faces three felony counts for his alleged role in the harassment of poll worker Ruby Freeman, has pleaded not guilty.
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"They all knew, the DA says, that Trump lost the election," Chris Kachouroff, Floyd's attorney, told Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case, at a November hearing. "So if it turns out that Trump won, I think it's pretty relevant that we get this information so we can prove that."
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President Joe Biden narrowly won Georgia in 2020 by 11,779 votes. He became the first Democratic candidate to win over 70 percent of the vote in Fulton County since Franklin Roosevelt in 1944.
Kachouroff told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday that he has yet to receive any of the documents that he has subpoenaed from Fulton County and only some of what's been requested from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Fulton County has filed a motion to quash Floyd's subpoenas. McAfee will hold a hearing on the matter Tuesday.
"In January, Fulton County told my attorneys & Judge McAfee it would take 57,000 man hrs to get the documents we subpoenaed," Floyd wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month. "That is 6.5 YEARS! There is no way a full investigation was done for the State Election Board in 4 MONTHS. This is documented PERJURY!"
In response to Floyd's legal strategy, Von DuBose, Freeman's attorney, said, "Harrison Floyd was indicted based upon his conduct targeting Ruby Freeman—an election worker doing her job and serving her community—as part of a broad, coordinated conspiracy to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election."
Floyd was the only one of the 19 defendants in the case to spend time behind bars at the Fulton County Jail. On August 24, Floyd, unlike the other defendants, turned himself in without a lawyer or bond agreement. He was not released until August 30 after his lawyer negotiated a $100,000 bond.
Floyd has also accused Willis of racism, saying that she was going after him and co-defendant Trevian Kutti because of the color of their skin. Floyd and Kutti are the only Black defendants in the case.
"While my skin is also Black, DA Willis identifies me as white and views me as a defender of white supremacists due to my political beliefs," Floyd said in a video shared to social media last month. "Deep down, she wants to make me pay for what she feels is a betrayal to Black culture. Her words and actions consistently demonstrate a hate for white people and need to make this case about race."
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