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The Georgia Republican Party is attempting to set the record straight on “fake electors.” Monday, State GOP Chairman Josh McKoon announced the launch of a new website designed to counter some media reports that are pushing the idea that “a group individuals gathered at the State Capitol in secret, self-proclaimed themselves the Presidential electors of Georgia and wrote up false papers casting the electoral votes of Georgia for Donald Trump and Mike Pence.”

“That is absolutely false,” said McKoon. The website – www.electortruth.com – takes a new twist on the allegations of fake electors – comparing these allegations to the “tales of Big Foot and Loch Ness.”

A statement released by McKoon states that “The sixteen men and women who served as contingent Republican electors in Georgia during the 2020 election are patriots who did their legal duty pursuant to established legal precedent and the plain language of federal and Georgia law. Yet they have been repeatedly smeared by The Atlanta Journal Constitution and hounded by politically motivated investigators and prosecutors.”

He goes on to say in a press statement: “The fact that these patriots have been ‘targeted’ by Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis is an outrageous assault on the rule and law and our First Amendment freedoms. Please visit the website to learn the truth.”

According to McKoon’s statements, “The State Executive Committee of the Georgia Republican Party unanimously voted to ratify the acts of our Republican presidential elector nominees and defend them against these politically motivated investigations and prosecutions. We cannot waver for even a moment when the organs of law enforcement are weaponized to silence us.”

The website explains that the electors “had been certified to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on March 5, 2020. Their names had been published by the Secretary of State as qualified and nominated candidates. And under the plain language of the Georgia Election Code, they became “contingent” Presidential electors on December 4, 2020 when a lawsuit was filed contesting the certification of the 2020 Presidential election.

The website goes on to say that “Democrats did the same thing.”

“The Republicans were not the only ‘contingent’ electors who met at the State Capitol on December 14, 2020. The moment that the lawsuit contesting the Presidential election was filed, both the Democratic elector nominees who had been certified as having been elected by Secretary of State Raffensperger and the Republican elector nominees who were contesting that election became contingent electors. None of the Democratic electors have been investigated or threatened with prosecution, nor should they be. Even though they too were contingent electors, like the Republicans, they were acting reasonably, lawfully, and necessarily to preserve the electoral votes of Joe Biden in the event that the pending Trump lawsuit was rejected.”