Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system implementation manager. Michael M Santiago/GettyImages
A top Republican elections official in Georgia held a press conference on Monday to push back on what he characterized as rampant disinformation spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in their efforts to overturn the results of the state’s presidential contest in November.
Sterling spoke just days after his boss, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, spoke on the phone with Trump for more than an hour, and pushed back on both the president’s outlandish conspiracy theories about the election and his efforts to pressure Raffensperger into changing enough votes in the state to tilt the contest in Trump’s favor. Raffensperger told ABC News on Monday that he wanted to make clear to Trump “that the data that he has is just plain wrong.
Asked about the call on Monday, Sterling said he “found it to be something not normal, out of place, and nobody I know who would be president would do something like that to a secretary of state.”
Standing next to a large placard reading “CLAIM VS FACT,” Sterling sought to individually debunk an array of conspiracy theories floated since Election Day by Trump, his campaign, his legal team, and his allies in Republican politics and conservative media. He specifically addressed some of Trump’s more bizarre claims during his phone call with Raffensperger.
“There is no shredding of ballots going on. That’s not real. That’s not happening,” Sterling said, referring to one of Trump’s claims on the call. “No one is changing parts or pieces out of Dominion voting machines,” he said at another point. “I don’t even know what that means. It’s not a real thing…I don’t even know how exactly to explain that.”
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