Who’s Shaye Moss, former Georgia election employee to testify earlier than Jan. 6 panel?

A former Georgia election employee is about to testify within the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot’s newest public listening to on Tuesday because the panel seeks to indicate former President Trump’s stress marketing campaign on state officers to overturn the 2020 presidential election outcomes and his function within the riot.

That official, former Fulton County, Ga., elections employee Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, will seem earlier than the committee throughout their second panel. 

Georgia was amongst a handful of battleground states that Trump misplaced over the past presidential election, baselessly claiming that election fraud had been dedicated.

Trump had urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “discover 11,870 votes” to assist him notch a win within the Peach State simply days earlier than Congress was set to certify the 2020 election votes on Jan. 6, 2021.

Between 2017 and April 2022, Moss had been a employee with the Fulton County Division of Registration & Elections, in line with John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, and had been concerned in vote relying on Election Day in 2020.

She obtained dying threats after being accused of counting ballots for then-candidate Joe Biden a number of instances along with counting fraudulent ballots, turning into a goal of former President Trump and his allies.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum famous that she was compelled to enter hiding and have her look modified as a result of variety of dying threats she obtained, although she continued on together with her work. 

She and her mom, who additionally labored throughout the 2020 election, later sued the dad or mum firm to One America Information Community’s (OAN), folks tied to the outlet and Rudy Giuliani along with conservative web site Gateway Pundit for defamation. 

Moss was additionally one in all 5 folks to win the John F. Kennedy Profile in Braveness Award this 12 months, awarded the distinction for the “braveness to guard and defend democracy in the US and overseas,” in line with the library and museum.

Different officers whom the Home choose committee will hear from on Tuesday embrace Arizona Home Speaker Rusty Bowers (R), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his chief working officer Gabriel Sterling. 

Bowers additionally obtained a John F. Kennedy Profile in Braveness Award this 12 months. 

“We’ll be taking a detailed have a look at how the president and his allies got here up with these schemes to stress Republican-controlled legislatures and different state officers to reverse the certification of his electoral loss,” a committee aide informed journalists on Monday.

“We’ll display that President Trump and his allies drove the stress marketing campaign primarily based on lies. These lies led to threats that put state and native officers and their households in danger. These lies perpetuated the general public’s perception that the election was stolen, tainted by widespread fraud, and these lies additionally contributed to the violence on Jan. 6,” the aide added.