Voting stickers are laid out on a table at a polling station in Atlanta on Tuesday. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
A mother and son were removed as poll workers in Johns Creek, Georgia, minutes before polls opened this morning after a social media post surfaced showing they were involved in the May 6 attack on the US Capitol. January 2021 participated.
“I stood up for what is right in Washington DC today. This election was a sham. Mike Pence is a traitor. I was tear gassed FOUR times. I have pepper spray stuck in my throat. I stormed the Capitol. And my kids had the best learning experience of their lives,” read a Facebook post shared with CNN by state election officials.
“I know it happened. This is really a Fulton County internal issue. They need to mitigate the risk in whatever way they see fit given this information,” Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, said when asked by CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday.
“I think it would have been better if they possibly found out sooner and worked with people, but since it was so last minute and came to light so late, I’ll leave it to Fulton County.” But yes, that happened this morning,” Sterling said.
The social media post is “under investigation of concern,” Nadine Williams, Fulton County’s interim director of registration and elections, said at a news conference earlier Tuesday.
“We decided to remove them until we could complete the investigation,” Williams said.
“We just want to make sure the election is safe,” she added.
Social media posts and a comment made during an event by poll workers were brought to the attention of the Fulton County board by a colleague. Williams said the Secretary of State’s office had been consulted on the matter, and the State Department agreed that there were concerns.
Williams said she was not free to comment on the nature of the social media post when asked by a reporter, but confirmed it contained a threat to election security.
“There were some things in there that weren’t allowed. You cannot take videos or photos during the election. That brought it to our attention,” Williams said.
