Cincinnati Enquirer
Two Georgia election workers who were “caught in the crossfire of [Rudy] Giuliani’s campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 election” will have their day in court now that the federal court for the District of Columbia denied Giuliani’s motion to dismiss their complaint.
As has happened so many times over the last two years, Giuliani couldn’t muster the facts or the law in his favor.
The two plaintiffs in this case, Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Moss, were poll workers involved in the Georgia recount following the 2020 presidential election. They were stationed at the State Farm Arena in Fulton County, Georgia.
Trump surrogates contended that a “State Farm Arena security camera video showing grainy images of two women,” later identified as plaintiffs, “counting ballots.” The Trump surrogates alleged that after “Republican observers had been asked to leave the arena[,] in contravention of Georgia law,” the women in the video clip and “other election workers [had] produced and counted 18,000 hidden, fraudulent ballots.” Although that claim was debunked by Georgia officials, Giuliani wouldn’t let it go. As the court noted,
"Giuliani persisted in pushing those very claims—and began taking direct aim at plaintiffs in the process. That began in December 2020, when Giuliani orchestrated and implemented a strategic plan ‘to educate the public on the fraud numbers, and inspire citizens to call upon legislators and Members of Congress to disregard the...
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