Former President Donald Trump, speaking Saturday in Atlanta, praised three members of the Georgia State Election Board who have pressed for new rules ahead of the November election – even as he continued to make false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Election board members Rick Jeffares, Janelle King and Janice Johnston have pressed a series of rules they say are designed to increase transparency. Critics fear they are attempting to pave the way for Republicans to reject the results of a Democratic victory in the presidential election.

“Those three people are incredible,” Trump said.

The three Republican-appointed board members drew criticism and a lawsuit when they met recently to approve two election rules despite concerns from the Attorney General’s Office that the meeting would violate the state Open Meetings Act. The board later agreed to revisit the rules at another meeting.

Trump also took another shot at Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

“They don’t want the election to be honest,” he said. “In my opinion, they want us to lose.”

Trump has made false allegations about voting fraud in Georgia for years, and Saturday was no different.

“I won this state twice, in my opinion,” he told the crowd.

State and federal investigators have examined numerous allegations of voting fraud following the 2020 election and found no evidence to support them. Among other things, they have debunked claims that that tens of thousands of dead people voted, reports of counterfeit ballots, allegations of illegal ballot harvesting and tales of election-night ballot-stuffing.

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