The Black Voices for Trump leader accused of harassing a Georgia poll worker in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election is demanding election records that conspiracy theorists believe prove Donald Trump won, court records show.
Harrison Floyd, who is among 14 remaining co-defendants in District Attorney Fani Willis’s corruption case against Trump, demanded this week that officials hand over thousands of pages of Fulton County voting records he thinks will disprove President Joe Biden’s victory.
“Mr. Floyd intends to present as his defense, evidence that President Trump did not lose the November 3, 2020 election in the State of Georgia,” a motion filed by his attorneys reads.
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“He intends to produce, for example, evidence that more than 41,079 presidential votes should have been excluded.”
On Friday, Floyd’s attorney Chris Kachouroff appeared in court to request such evidence, namely voting machine records, ballot reports, absentee ballot envelopes and applications the Washington Post reports conspiracy theorists have been wanting to get a hold of for years.
Floyd’s claim is the same one repeatedly dismissed in multiple U.S. court cases since Biden won the popular vote: that poll site irregularities bought Biden his win.
But prosecutors ,who’ve charged Floyd with racketeering, conspiracy to solicit false statements and influencing witnesses, say the Black Voices leader committed a crime when he got hold of the home address and phone number of election worker Ruby Freeman, court records show.
The criminal indictment contends Floyd showed up at the poll worker’s home after a fellow Trump supporter frightened her by appearing on her doorstep and repeatedly called Freeman's phone number.
Freeman is the same person former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani falsely accused of infiltrating Dominion voting machines with USBs that she passed around like “vials of heroin or cocaine,” the complaint contends.
Freeman is also the woman Trump described to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as a “professional vote scammer and hustler.”
The decision to hand over this large pile of voter records rests with Fulton County Supreme Court Judge Scott McAfee, who the Washington Post reports does not take the decision lightly.
“I would like to go down this road … and dig a little deeper,” McAfee said. “It almost seems from the case law that something could conceivably be relevant but maybe be so burdensome that it can still be quashed.”
McAfee also admitted he saw another potential risk in Floyd’s attorney’s ask.
