‘There’s nowhere I feel safe’: Georgia election workers on how Trump upended their lives

Shaye Moss, former elections department employee in Fulton county, Georgia, testifies, as her mother, Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman looks on. Photograph: Reuters

In powerful and emotional testimony about the sinister results of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, a mother and daughter who were Georgia elections workers described how Trump and his allies upended their lives, fueling harassment and racist threats by claiming they were involved in voter fraud.

Testifying to the January 6 committee in Washington, Shaye Moss said she received “a lot of threats. Wishing death upon me. Telling me that I’ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.’”