Georgia’s outspoken elections manager has clocked hundreds of hours investigating voter fraud and defending the integrity of the state’s election system. But recently, one case of alleged illegal voting hit a little too close to home for Gabriel Sterling.
Sterling said he received a third-party election flier at his house reminding a voter who lived at the Sandy Spring address to pick up the absentee ballot she requested and to “return it quickly to ensure your vote is counted,” according to a report from Fox 5 Atlanta.
The problem is that the voter, Meron Fissha, moved to Maryland two years ago after selling her home to Sterling.
That did not sit well with Sterling, who marched down to the Fulton County Elections Division to file an election challenge and prevent Fissha from casting an illegal vote.
“Not a glitch, she signed an oath stating she lives here to vote,” Sterling said on social media. “That’s a false swearing.”
Not a glitch, she signed an oath stating she lives here to vote. That’s a false swearing.
— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) December 22, 2020
Sterling also said he would classify the incident as “illegal voting” and not fraud because “fraud implies a greater conspiracy.”
The other irony is that the group Fair Fight sent Fissha the reminder to vote.
“The Fulton Elections Board has acted and stated that my challenge to the qualifications of the woman attempting to vote from the house I purchased from her 2 years ago meets probable cause,” Sterling said.
Georgia has been in the national spotlight since the Nov. 3 general election. President Trump has claimed that he would have won the battleground state had there not been widespread incidents of election and voter fraud.
Sterling, a conservative, is one of three people in the secretary of state’s office who has borne the brunt of criticism by Trump and members of his own party for the way the presidential election played out in Georgia.
He has fiercely defended the state’s multimillion-dollar new voting system and has said there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Georgia.
