Facebook posts by elections chief Gabriel Sterling during the 2016 primary in which he pushes then-Trump rival Marco Rubio — and one where he signs off with #nevertrump —have raised questions over his neutrality in the 2020 election.
In a Facebook post dated February 2016, the Georgia Voting System Implementation manager clearly states his position on President Trump’s candidacy, urging voters to vote for rival candidate Marco Rubio and keep Trump out of office. A few months later on April 4, 2016, Sterling, who describes himself on Twitter as a conservative, posts that Trump shouldn’t be the Republican nominee because polls show women voters favor then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The post ends with #nevertrump.
A number of Americans have now taken to Twitter to call Sterling out. Attorney Robert Barnes called Sterling “a fraud.” He goes on to pose a number of questions for the Georgia elections chief. “When are you going to publish the ballots, as your office promised when you gave $106M to Dominion?” Barnes said on Twitter. “When are you going to allow an audit of the signature-match process, as your office promised for weeks through your lawyers?”
Commenting on Barnes’ tweet, another Twitter user, data journalist and host of ‘Inside the Numbers,’ Rich Baris, says Sterling’s posts in the past show that he has been working to stop President Trump for years. He tweets “A not-so in-depth search through @GabrielSterling on Facebook shows just how much he thought about “stopping Trump” in Georgia, for years.”
