When Lawrence Sloan took a temporary job in the Fulton County elections department, he didn’t expect to be blamed falsely — by a portion of the country — for rigging the presidential contest.
But that’s what happened earlier this month in the days after Election Day when a 30-second video of Sloan spread rapidly on the internet.
It all happened while workers in Fulton County, including Sloan, hurried to open envelopes and scan mail-in ballots that looked like they might determine who would be the next president.
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