This article was hard for me to read. Here’s the Reader’s Digest version. Through Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger Georgia received an $11 million federal grant to cover added election expenses due to COVID-19. This Sterling character is a lawyer and an employee of the State of Georgia. Sterliing set up a private company with himself as the COO. Raffensperger “granted” the $11 million to Sterling and his company in order to start a ballot “drop box” system which would collect votes from people without first identifying them as valid voters.
Sterling has revealed himself as a radical leftist in online postings. Sterling was responsible for hiring Georgia’s cheating vote counters. Trump is going to visit Georgia a week from Saturday to ask about this little sweetheart deal. How can one person be a state employee, and concurrently be a private contractor who receives an $11 million grant?
Forget the voting issue for a minute. How can a state employee set up a company and have the state award him a contract and it not be illegal period ? Is Georgia state law that pro-swindle?
I think you pretty much nailed it. You can't, legally. And both grantor and grantee are complicit.