An organization with links
to Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D-Atlanta), New Georgia
Project, has been accused of forging voter registration forms and falsely
telling registered voters they were required by law to re-register. Georgia
Secretary of State Brian Kemp received multiple
complaints from at least six counties and in response
to those complaints, subpoenaed the group to produce all documents related to
their efforts to “register voters, store voter information, contact voters or
any other canvassing project.”
New Georgia Project is an
offshoot of the organization Third Sector Development, which was founded, and
currently led, by Stacey Abrams.
In a memo sent to county
elections officials, Mr. Kemp stated that:
“[A
p]reliminary investigation has revealed significant illegal
activities’ including forged voter registration applications, forged signatures
on releases, and applications with false or inaccurate information.”
When
questioned by a local news reporter, Mr. Kemp continued to stand up for the
integrity of the election process, saying:
“We’re just
not going to put up with fraud. I mean, we have zero tolerance for that in
Georgia so we’ve opened an investigation and served some subpoenas. At the end
of the day this is not going to be about politics. This is about potential
fraud which we think happened.”
Considering Abram’s involvement
in Michelle Nunn’s senate race, Senate candidate David Perdue’s spokeswoman
Megan Whittemore released a statement, drawing similarities between the New
Georgia Project and another group known for fraudulent election activity –
ACORN – stating:
“The serious allegations of illegal activities and potential fraud from
liberal voter registration groups are outrageous and should be investigated to
the fullest extent of the law. As outlined in Michelle Nunn’s well-documented
campaign plan, since Democrats cannot win on the issues they are aggressively
trying to expand the electorate by any means necessary. The fact that an
organization led by a well-known Nunn supporter would attempt to illegally
register voters is unacceptable and reminiscent of the Obama-political
machine’s ACORN scandal. There is nothing more fundamental to our democratic
process than maintaining the integrity of our elections and any attempt to
tamper with them is deplorable.”
Abrams is still “weighing
her options” on responding to the subpoena.
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