Secretary Of States Launches Probe Into Illegal Third-Party Voting

The top election official in Georgia announced that he will be opening an investigation into whether third-party groups are trying to register nonresidential voters in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections on January 5.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters that “we have opened an investigation into a group called America Votes who is sending absentee ballot applications to people at addresses where they have not lived since 1994.”

He also said his investigators are looking into “Vote Forward, who attempted to register a dead Alabama voter, a woman, to vote here in Georgia.” Raffensperger also mentioned “The New Georgia Project, who sent voter registration applications to New York City.”

The secretary of state highlighted “Operation New Voter Registration Georgia, who is telling college students in Georgia that they can change their residency to Georgia and then change it back after the election.”

Raffensperger stressed that “voting in Georgia when you’re not a resident of Georgia is a felony. And encouraging college students to commit felonies without regard for what it might mean for them is despicable. These third-party groups have a responsibility not to encourage illegal voting. If they do so, they will be held responsible.”