Georgia woman who brought gun to vote being investigated, claims she was ‘totally intimidated’ by BLM
Barnini Chakraborty
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A white Georgia woman who brought a gun into a polling place after claiming she feared for her life as Black Lives Matter members played music and passed out water bottles to people in line is being investigated by the attorney general’s office.
Sarah Webster of Dawson, Georgia, said she felt “intimidated” when she saw people wearing “Black Voters Matter” T-shirts handing out food and drinks outside her polling place during early voting in 2020.
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She launched a complaint with the state election board only to have it backfire. Instead of investigating BLM, they unanimously voted to investigate her actions, which included packing a pistol in her purse before going in to vote and then moving it into a hip holster for all to see.
Webster claimed she thought the group was violating election laws by being so close to a polling place. They were not. What was illegal was having a gun or weapon within 150 feet of a polling place.
Georgia legislators have since banned distributing food and water at polling locations.
She also allegedly escalated the situation by telling those who had gathered that “communism is great until you have to cook your puppy for dinner,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
“I was completely, absolutely in horror when I pulled up to the polls to vote. … I was totally intimidated,” she told the Macon election board. “They did chase me to my car and were very upset with me. My life was in danger.”
The authorities arrested Webster a week later on a disorderly conduct charge, the outlet reported.
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BLM volunteers said they were not there to sway voters, nor did they advocate any specific candidate. Instead, they handed out water and food to all of the people standing in line, including Webster.