How election deniers are hounding Georgia officials

Since Donald Trump’s loss in Georgia in 2020 a relentless pressure campaign has been directed at Georgia officials to investigate unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud
– and to implement policies based on those claims that will affect how elections are run in Georgia.

“We can address these matters publicly or privately – but make no mistake, they will be addressed,” Moncla told members of the board in the email that prompted Georgia election officials to ask the FBI to investigate him.

#Kevin #Moncla is among a small group of #election #deniers who have relentlessly hounded the Georgia SEB and other officials on a weekly and sometimes daily basis to investigate mostly unfounded allegations of widespread voter fraud.
He has been joined in his pursuit of conspiratorial election fraud claims by #Joe #Rossi, a teacher at a technical college in Macon, and #David #Cross, a self-described financial adviser who is second vice-chair of the Georgia GOP.

The trio have made a name for themselves in election denier circles, with their work being cited across a rightwing ecosystem of influential websites, social media accounts and even within prominent political circles.
Since November 2020, Moncla and his fellow election deniers have emailed the SEB to file complaints based on technical glitches, human errors and in many cases outright false claims of widespread election fraud in Georgia.

The complaints follow the #playbook of rightwing activists and citizens across the state who have been inundating local election offices with public records requests in attempts to prove conspiracies about widespread voter fraud.
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