Gabriel Sterling, the elections manager for the Georgia Secretary of State, filed a challenge to a vote cast by the woman who had previously owned his house after she received and voted using an absentee ballot listing his address as her residence, WAGA Fox-5 Atlanta reports.
Sterling became suspicious after receiving a flier from a third-party candidate addressed to the previous owner of his house, Meron Fissha, and encouraging her to complete and mail in the ballot as soon as possible. Sterling had bought the house two years previously from Fissha, who had moved to Maryland.
Using public voter records, Sterling discovered that Fissha had submitted the mail-in ballot using his address, so he filed a complaint with the Election Commission in his district.
“It would have been absolutely illegal voting if this wasn’t stopped,” said Sterling. “I mean of all the ironies to come to my house, so I could go and look it up and sure enough she had requested the ballot be sent to Maryland.”
Even though this single incident happened to him, Sterling maintain that neither he nor Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have uncovered any widespread voter fraud.
Fox 5 News contacted Fissha in Maryland, and she stated that she maintains her primary address and her job in Atlanta, but that she moved to Maryland temporarily to help her brother, who has medical issues.