tell me how so. yeah, it upends the lives of anybody who wants to volunteer or, you know, maybe work as a temp worker in this space. and that s what ruby freeman was. ruby freeman just joined on because a bunch of people just got covid, and her daughter who s an election worker said we need more people, please stop by. and what did she do to deserve all this harassment, deserve that 911 call, she moved a box of ballots from under a table and put them on top of a table. complete lies, but they were pushed on the internet by anonymous people, picked up by the gateway pundit and then for months they wouldn t let it go. on january 6th when people were storming the capitol ruby s house had people around it with bull horns, outside in vehicles, people banging on the door again. and, you know, that just continued for months. her life had, you know, fundamentally changed because
ben, this constant treatment of lies from the right has upended the lives of election workers. it is not just these two women. tell me how so. it upends the lives of anybody that wants to volunteer or maybe work as a temp worker in this space. that s what ruby freeman was. she joined on because a bunch of people got covid and her daughter said we need election people. please stop by. she moved a box of ballots from under a table and put them on top of a table. trump campaign workers said this was a suitcase of ballots ruby brought with her. complete lies. but they were pushed on the internet. for months, they wouldn t let it go. on january 6th, ruby s house had people around it with bullhorns.
incredible ongoing reuters series on threats and harassment against election officials and election workers in the wake of the 2020 election. this latest reporting zooms in and tells the story of two specific elections workers, ruby freeman who is the woman you heard on the 911 call, and her daughter. ms. freeman s daughter is an elections worker in metro atlanta in fulton county and asked her mom ruby to sign up as a temp worker to help process ballots on election day. the two of them worked through that day and night with other workers processing ballots at a state farm arena. in the aftermath of the election as president trump and his supporters set to work trying to overturn biden s win in georgia, one of the things they did is they took a clip from the surveillance video that happened to show ruby freeman and her daughter just doing their jobs, not doing anything wrong, but donald trump and his lawyers started telling everybody that
name, of stealing the presidential election from him in georgia. that 911 call is featured in the latest installment of the incredible, ongoing reuters series on threats and harassment against election officials and election workers in the wake of the 2020 election. this latest reporting zooms in and tells the story of two specific elections workers, ruby freeman who is the woman you heard on the 911 call, and her daughter. ms. freeman s daughter is an elections worker in metro atlanta in fulton county and asked her mom ruby to sign up as a temp worker to process ballots on election day. the two of them worked through that day and night with other workers processing ballots at a state farm arena. in the aftermath of the election as president trump and his supporters set to work trying to overturn biden s win in georgia, one of the things they did is they took a clip from the surveillance video that happened to show ruby freeman and her
suing the gateway pundit because the site published a quote conspiracy of lies about them lying that both plaintiffs say committed ballot raut fraud in the 2020 election. they have endured threats from far right republicans who believe those claims. they had to close down their homes and leave the area for months for safety. they want basically to be reimburse ford the costs they incurred. i want to bring in reporter ben collins. talk about what they are saying happened to them. how far the harassment went. it is a horrific harassment campaign. to give a brief summary of what took place here, freeman was a temp worker in georgia. she was working with her daughter in georgia. and they were told to shut down