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Believe donald trump really won the 2020 election. tonight donie o'sullivan reports on what's happened to one arizona county election official who once believed conspiracy theories but then discovered he wasn't extreme enough. >> you should be in jail. you should be killed. you should be fired. to just people screaming into the phone. i mean, just -- and 24/7. >> reporter: lisa ma rah was direction of elections in arizona for six years. >> we had to hire an armed security company because the people that worked in the office processing ballots were afraid somebody was going to come break the do...

Past. >> for nearly ten years shay moss worked at the fulton county department of election registration in atlanta, georgia. she served as an election worker because her grandmother instilled in her the importance of voting, a right that had once been denied to her. at election time shay's mother, ruby freeman, would come to work processing ballots. but in 2020 election deniers targeted shay and ruby making false claims that security footage showed they were sneaking in fake ballots. the former president invoked ruby's name 18 times in a phone call pressuring state officials to change the vote...

Registration in atlanta, georgia. she served as an election worker because her grandmother instilled in her the importance of voting, a right that had once been denied to her. at election time shay's mother, ruby freeman, would come to work processing ballots. but in 2020 election deniers targeted shay and ruby making false claims that security footage showed they were sneaking in fake ballots. the former president invoked ruby's name 18 times in a phone call pressuring state officials to change the vote count in georgia. those comments went viral. >> i've lost my name, and i've lost my reputa...

Attempt at trying to get you indicted was intended to be intimidating and some of that was successful. i wonder if if you could take us back to the moment when you realized this was happening, when you realized what he was trying to do. >> it all began with a complaint in the counting station where a few poll watchers were claiming that they couldn't see or hear clearly enough what was going on. and their complaint was odd because they were standing right next to me in the middle of the counting station. what these people really wanted to do was hover on top of innocent election workers who we...

Processing ballots and the poll watchers refused to wear masks. this was in the middle of a pandemic, austin was in stage five and there was no vaccine, so i fought back and said no, i will not allow these election workers to be intimidated and potentially infected like that, so no, you can't get that close to them without wearing a mask and without observing some basic scientific protections, that caused a dispute with the republican party, so we entered into negotiations and the outcome of the negotiations that that okay, our poll watchers can get as close as they want as long as they're car...