A top election official in Georgia took aim at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for spreading “disproven conspiracies” after she falsely claimed during a House panel on election integrity that former President Donald Trump won the state in the 2020 election.
“I had a discussion with the Election Integrity Caucus. A big part of that is talking truthfully about the challenges in elections and identifying REAL issues,” wrote Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in a tweet Tuesday night.
“Some still deal in disproven conspiracies. It’s a challenge we all face, but having a @CocaCola makes everything better,” Sterling tweeted alongside a screenshot of him taking a deep swig of soda while seated next to Greene.
Sterling, who came into the national spotlight when he denounced false claims of election fraud in Georgia after the 2020 election, was one of several elections officers who appeared Tuesday before the GOP-led House Election Integrity Caucus. Greene is a member of the group.
The roundtable discussion was intended to address “election administration best practices,” said a press release from Rep. Claudia Tenney, a New York Republican and the caucus co-chair. “Panelists discussed what went right in their states during the 2022 election and raised a range of ideas for improving elections as we look forward to 2024.”
Greene on Tuesday evening posted a video from that event that showed her turning to Sterling and criticizing him directly.
“Gabe, I do not consider you an expert on this issue. As a matter of fact, I consider you a major problem,” Greene said.
She floated an array of disputed claims about election fraud in Georgia’s 2020 general election, beginning with the claim that her ex-husband had showed up to vote in person and was told he had already voted by absentee ballot.
“No one gave a s— about what happened to him,” Greene said, claiming that many others had reported the same issue.
Greene then made the…
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