负责佐治亚州选举的共和党州官员驳斥了特朗普总统的虚假说法，该说法旨在对该州的计票完整性提出质疑，而该州的提前投票已在中期选举中展开。
The Republican state official in charge of Georgia’s elections rebutted false claims by President Donald Trump that sought to cast doubt on the integrity of vote-counting in the state with early voting already underway in the midterm elections.
佐治亚州州务卿布拉德·拉芬斯伯格告诉彭博电视台，他预计该州的选举结果将在选举日午夜前公布，称该过程“自由、公平且快速”。他补充道：“我们非常有信心，到当天结束时，您可以相信这些结果。”
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told Bloomberg Television that he expects the state’s election results by midnight on Election Day, calling the process “free, fair and fast.”“We are very confident that at the end of the day you can trust the results,” he added.
特朗普周五在佐治亚州西北部农村地区发表讲话时，重复了他此前毫无根据的主张，即2020年大选被“操纵”以针对他本人，而正在竞选连任的民主党参议员乔恩·奥索夫从未被合法选举。
Trump, speaking in rural northwestern Georgia on Friday, repeated claims he has made without evidence that the 2020 election had been “rigged” against him and that Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat running for reelection, had never been legitimately elected.
特朗普正在为共和党众议员迈克·柯林斯助选，后者在民意调查中落后于奥索夫；同时也在为共和党州长候选人里克·杰克逊助选，后者在民意调查中略微领先于民主党人凯莎·兰斯·博顿姆斯。
The president was campaigning on behalf of Republican Representative Mike Collins, who is trailing Ossoff in the polls, and GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson, who holds a slight lead over Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms.
特朗普的言论是在共和党控制的州选举委员会主任请求特朗普政府介入佐治亚州选举以确保公平之后发表的。该请求至今仍未得到联邦官员的回应，引发了人们对特朗普可能试图干预佐治亚州选举以影响结果的担忧。
Trump’s comments followed a request by the director of the GOP-controlled State Election Board to the Trump administration to intervene in the Georgia election to ensure fairness. That request, which has so far been met with silence from federal officials, stoked worries that Trump would attempt to intervene in Georgia to sway the result.
拉芬斯伯格表示，他尚未收到联邦官员关于介入的通知，也不期待特朗普政府会这样做。他说，州选民名单已被审计三次，准确率达到99%。他在最后一次审计中指出，有200名非公民被从名单中剔除。
Raffensperger said he has not heard from federal officials about getting involved and he does not expect the Trump administration to do so. He said that state voter rolls have been audited three times and have been rated 99% accurate. Two hundred non-citizens were culled from the rolls in the last audit, he said.
在2020年大选结果出炉之后，特朗普向拉芬斯伯格施压，要求他“找出”他赢得佐治亚州以击败乔·拜登所需的11,780张选票。拉芬斯伯格当时拒绝了特朗普的请求，并表示选举是在安全的情况下进行的。在美国参议院选举第一轮中，奥索夫的得票数虽比当时的参议员大卫·珀杜少，但差距很小，随后他在前两名候选人之间的决选中获胜。
In the aftermath of the 2020 election result, Trump pressured Raffensperger to “find” the 11,780 votes he would need to carry Georgia against Joe Biden. Raffensperger rejected Trump’s request then and said the election had been conducted securely. In the first round of the US Senate election, Ossoff finished with fewer votes than then-Senator David Perdue narrowly but went on to win in a runoff between the top two candidates.
奥索夫在周六亚特兰大附近举行的其竞选活动中规模最大的集会上，试图利用特朗普的最新言论来激励支持者亲自前往投票站提前投票。他提到了联邦调查局今年采取的行动——作为对所谓不当行为的调查的一部分，从富尔顿县扣押了2020年的选票。
Ossoff in the largest rally of his campaign near Atlanta on Saturday sought to use the fresh Trump comments to motivate supporters to vote early in person. He referenced a move this year by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to seize 2020 ballots from Fulton County as part of an investigation into alleged improprieties.
“他们竟然来到民权运动的摇篮地散布这些谎言并扣押这些选票，真是愚蠢至极，”奥索夫在一幅巨幅横幅前对约1500人的人群说道，横幅上写着“佐治亚州提前投票”。
“How foolish of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots,” Ossoff told a crowd of about 1,500 people before a giant banner that read “Georgia Votes Early.
拉芬斯伯格表示，他尚未收到联邦调查局关于富尔顿县调查的任何信息。
Raffensperger said he has not heard anything from the FBI on the Fulton County investigation.
拉芬斯伯格说，截至周一中午，已有90万人进行了提前投票，相比2022年增加了9%。
As of noon on Monday, 900,000 people had voted early, a 9% increase compared to 2022, Raffensperger said.