"Voting Systems Manager Gabriel Sterling revealed on Tuesday that a woman used his address to vote in the general election and request an absentee ballot for the runoff election. Sterling learned of the fraudulent voting after he received a flier from a voting organization reminding the woman, Meron Fissha, to return her absentee ballot.
“The Lord moves in mysterious ways,” remarked Sterling on the matter.
“The woman I bought my home from over 2 yrs ago trying to vote from it absentee,” wrote Sterling. “I’ve filed [an] official challenge to stop her from casting an apparently illegal vote. Not a glitch, she signed an oath stating she lives here to vote. That’s a false swearing.”
...the woman attempting to vote from the house I purchased from her 2 years ago
Although some doubted that the woman under investigation had intended to vote illegally, Sterling clarified that the woman had done so after not living at the address for years.
“It’s over 2 years. over 2 full election cycles,” wrote Sterling. “She illegally votes in races here…she signed a sworn oath saying she lived in my home. I followed the process available to me under the law…I challenged her ability to cast a legal vote.”
Others argued that it was a glitch in the voting system. Sterling refuted those claims as well.
“Not a glitch, she signed an oath stating she lives here to vote. That’s false swearing,” wrote Sterling. “[T]his person vacated this residence permanently. Moved elsewhere. Knowingly. Then signed an oath stating it was her residence. That’s illegal. It’s a felony in fact.”
Shortly after Sterling filed his election challenge, election officials voted to approve it.
One of the board members voted against accepting Sterling’s challenge of the voter.
“Who was the one who thinks this didn’t meet probable cause,” responded Sterling. “I mean that’s ridiculous.”