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Robb Pitts, chair of Georgia’s Fulton County Commission, dismissed new efforts by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to revisit Georgia’s 2020 election results. Pitts said the county has long complied with election laws and that multiple investigations and recounts have already affirmed the integrity of the vote. (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
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