Fulton County Election Workers Sue Rudy Giuliani, Claim 'Partisan Character Assassination'

ATLANTA, GA — Two Fulton County election workers involved in the 2020 presidential election have sued One America News, its owners, one of the network’s key broadcasters and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

The federal complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claims that OAN, its owners Charles and Robert Herring, commentator Chanel Rion and Giuliani — a frequent guest and personal attorney for former President Donald Trump — were responsible for “partisan character assassination” of Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, by falsely accusing the two of tampering with absentee ballots during their roles as official vote counters.

As a result of the accusations, and video footage the lawsuit claims was edited to make them appear to be tampering with ballots, both women say their personal and professional reputations have been ruined, they've faced countless violent and racist threats, and they fear for their lives, according to court records.

Giuliani is among a faction of Republicans who support the former president’s unproven assertions that Trump lost the November 2020 election to Joe Biden — particularly in swing states such as Georgia, where Biden prevailed — of widespread cheating.

Moss was a longtime Fulton County elections employee, and Freeman had signed up to be a temporary worker for the 2020 election, according to court documents.

The complaint points to a video that was played for Georgia state senators on Dec. 3, 2020, showing Freeman, Moss and other election workers from a month earlier. The suit says the video purports to show the election counters “produced and counted 18,000 hidden, fraudulent ballots,” during a time with the counting area at the State Farm Arena had been evacuated for a burst pipe.

The video, which the lawsuit claims was doctored, was broadcast by OAN and subsequently circulated to multiple news outlets and across social media. But a day later, agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigations as well as Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — who had endorsed Trump for the election — refuted the legitimacy of the video.

After vote totals were tallied three times, Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp certified the results. And on Jan. 3, Trump personally called the secretary of state to influence Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” to overturn the results in Georgia, according to a recording of the call

The results of the election have been unsuccessfully challenged in more than 60 court cases across the nation, returning the same verdict — Trump lost the election.