Shaye Moss worked as an election worker in Georgia during the 2020 election.
She has worked for the Fulton County elections department since 2012 and supervised the absentee ballot operation during the 2020 election.
Moss appearred as a witness and testified in person in front of the January 6 committee during its hearing on Tuesday while her mother sat behind her to support her.
When their names circulated online along with allegations that they had engaged in fraud, the two women said they were subjected to intense harassment, both in-person and online.
Committee member Adam Schiff asked Moss on Tuesday: “Mr Giuliani accused you and your mother of passing some sort of USB drive to each other. What was your mom actually handing you on that video?”
“A ginger mint,” Moss said.
She said she received “a lot of threats wishing death upon me and telling me I will be in jail with my mother and saying things like ‘be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920’. A lot of them were racist. A lot of them were just hateful”.
Ruby Freeman: Who Is Shaye Moss’ Mother?
Ruby Freeman is a Georgia election worker.
She was a temporary election worker, verifying signatures on absentee ballots and preparing them to be counted and processed.
Born and raised in Georgia, affectionately called Lady Ruby is the owner of the fashion house ‘LaRuby’s unique treasures’ – a pop-up shop catering to ladies with unique fashions.
In early December 2020, a lawyer for President Donald J. Trump played a segment of surveillance footage from their vote-counting station for a Georgia Senate committee. The lawyer falsely claimed that the spliced clip showed Ruby Freeman and her daughter Moss pulling 18,000 fraudulent ballots from a suitcase and illegally feeding them through voting machines.
The baseless allegation was quickly seized upon by right-wing media outlets like The Gateway Pundit, which wrote several stories about Freeman and Moss, calling them “crooked Democrats” and claiming that they began counting ballots “without election monitors in the room.”
Although Fulton County and Georgia election officials immediately debunked the accusations, they were nonetheless amplified by top Trump allies like Rudolph W. Giuliani. He compared Moss and Freeman to drug dealers and called for their homes to be searched amid a hearing with Georgia state legislators.
On a phone call played by the committee, Mr Trump falsely called Ruby Freeman “a professional vote scammer and hustler”.
Freeman told the committee that she “could never have imagined the events that followed” the 2020 election. “For my entire professional, I was Lady Ruby. My community in Georgia, where I was born and lived my whole life, knew me as Lady Ruby.”
“I’ve lost my name and I’ve lost my reputation. I’ve lost my sense of security all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally, Rudy Giuliani, decided to scapegoat me and my daughter to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen,” Freeman stated.