North Fulton Today

A growing number of Georgia Democrats recently voted in the GOP primaries to block picks voiced by former President Donald Trump. 

In a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta, Democrat Diane Murray said that while she struggled with her decision all the way up to Election Day, her vote for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger came in order to prevent a "Trump-backed election denier" from being the state’s election chief.  

"I feel strongly that our democracy is at risk, and that people who are holding up the big lie, as we call it, and holding onto the former president are dangerous to democracy," Murray, who works at the University of Georgia, told FOX 5. "I don’t know I’ll do it again because of how I felt afterward. I just felt icky.”

An Associated Press analysis of early voting records from data firm L2 found that more than 37,000 people who voted in Georgia’s Democratic primary two years ago cast ballots in last week’s Republican primary, the FOX 5 report said. As a result, GOP primary winner Raffensperger avoided a runoff by just over 27,000 votes in a race where at least 50% of the vote is required to be declared the winner.

The votes in Georgia reflect a trend in crossover voting throughout the nation, as voters across the political spectrum hope to stop Trump-backed "extremists" from winning control at state and federal levels, the report said.