More than 70 million people have already voted in the 2024 election, and Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, knows what he’ll say to people who will inevitably challenge the results.
“I’m sorry that your candidate lost. But the rules are the rules. The law is the law. And the count is the count,” Sterling said.
As of Friday, more than half of registered voters in Georgia had already voted, according to data from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
Sterling and Raffensperger were among the Republicans pushing back against claims of fraud in 2020, when Georgia — where President Biden won — was at the center of a scheme to overthrow the election results. In a state where Republicans controlled every branch of government, Raffensperger stood up to former President Donald Trump and stood by the state’s results.