The pressure campaign and threats against two Georgia election workers figured prominently in this week’s indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Presidential Citizens Medal honorees Shaye Moss, a former Georgia election worker, left, and her mother Ruby Freeman arrive in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 6, 2023, for a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol and to award Presidential Citizens Medals. The pressure campaign and threats against the two Georgia election workers figured prominently in this week's indictment of Donald Trump.
It marks the highest-profile effort yet to hold people accountable for targeting state or local election officials, many of whom have left their jobs after facing political pressure or threats from those who falsely believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged. The indictment charges Trump with making false statements and writings in claims he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and other state election officials on Jan. 2, 2021 — including that up to 300,000 ballots “were dropped mysteriously into the rolls,” that more than 4,500 people voted who weren’t on registration lists and that Freeman was a “professional vote scammer.”
Several other cases involving threats against election workers have drawn attention in recent weeks. Earlier this month, a Texas man who threatened election officials in Arizona and called for a mass shooting of poll workers was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison.
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