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Gabriel Sterling: “There's a financial incentive for those who spread the lies…”

Featuring: Gabriel Sterling, Republican | Chief Operating Officer, Georgia Secretary of State

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Georgia election officials defend voting system against barrage of false claims, conspiracy theories

Published | Video Starts at 07:29

Sadly, tens of millions of Americans have been targeted for this disinformation. They've been preyed upon by losing candidates and foreign adversaries. And importantly, they have donated money. Because a lot of this is financial. There's a financial incentive for those who spread the lies, who have raised hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars off the lie that our elections aren't to be trusted. Let's look at some of the conspiracy theories of fraud. We'll take them one at a time. Bogus votes are electronically inserted into tabulation machines. They're not connected to the Internet. (07:29–07:40)

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Asserts that spreading election misinformation has financial incentives, raising significant funds.

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