Georgia's top election officials could testify publicly in front of the U.S. House committee investigating the 2021 Capitol insurrection this month, as failed Trump-led efforts to reverse the state's election results remain in the national spotlight.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Deputy Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling are making plans to participate in the televised hearings later this month, according to a person familiar with their schedules but not authorized to speak publicly.
The public testimony comes after Raffensperger appeared last week in a closed-door special grand jury investigation in Fulton County that is seeking to determine if former President Donald Trump and his allies violated several state laws in their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Sterling and others from the secretary of state's office are also scheduled to testify this month.
Raffensperger and others have also provided hours of testimony privately to the committee, including discussion of the unprecedented call from Trump asking Raffensperger to "find" enough votes to overturn the election, leaked to GPB News, The Washington Post and other media outlets less than 48 hours before Georgia's dual U.S. Senate runoffs.
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