In their new book, “The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It,” authors Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague focus on the everyday people doing their jobs who got caught up in the controversy.
For example Ruby Freeman in Georgia, who proudly worked sorting and counting ballots part-time but ended up accused of being a professional vote scammer.
She was among the many election officials singled out by supporters of Donald Trump for unfounded accusations of vote tampering, which were repeatedly disproven.
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