Georgia election official dealing with threats, attempted email hacks

[sabra]

Source: 11alive

ATLANTA — One of Georgia's top election officials, who has been in the spotlight throughout the election season holding multiple news conferences, is now getting threats, he said.

Gabriel Sterling, the Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said that he has police protection around his home after threats came in the aftermath of election results.

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Ari Schaffer, the press secretary for the Secretary of State, said the FBI is also investigating the threats made to state election officials.

Both men are said to be lifelong Republicans who had hoped for a Trump victory in Georgia, however, they said multiple times their highest priority was to uphold the integrity of the office and the elections it oversees.

Read more: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/gabriel-sterling-threats-georgia-election-official/85-42ad50cb-f123-4b35-938e-9b513cecefb1

[napi21]

1. Of coursethe Pubs have to resort to threats of violence! Can't deal with the

disappointment of losing!

[texasfiddler]

2. They dance with the devil

I’m not talking about frump. I’m talking about white supremacists, racists and the like. That is part of their base. They have to deal with it.

[Initech]

3. These assholes are just proving day after day why they shouldn't be allowed to hold any power.

[moreland01]

4. I will never cease to wonder how

republicans whose lives are threatened by republicans continue to be and vote republican.

[Tommymac]

5. Holy Frankenstein's Monster, Batman!

Glad they are doing the right thing now, but they created the very Monster that is threatening their lives.

When you live in a Pottery Barn you have to expect things to get broken.

[mpcamb]

6. Uh, oh. Shouldn't have said 'highest priority was to uphold the integrity of ...the election.'

trump supporters with gun hate that kinda talk.