Election officials are currently investigating the actions of a Republican Florida attorney who they say tried to register to vote in the high-stakes Georgia runoff that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. Officials claim he was also captured on video urging other Floridians to do the same.
According to WFLA, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the investigation in a statement on Thursday and explained that the act of moving to Georgia just to vote — with no intention of staying in the state afterward — can amount to a felony charge.
The lawyer, Bill Price, went online and attempted to register to vote using the address of his brother in Hiram, Georgia, Deidre Holden, the elections supervisor in Paulding County, Georgia said. The system put his registration in a pending status because he still needs to provide a Georgia driver’s license number or other proof of address.
“This is not about Republican or Democrat — this is about doing what’s right,” Holden told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Everybody’s always screaming, ‘The elections are fraudulent.’ No, we’re trying to do our job,” she added.
Price denied any wrongdoing and told WSB-TV that he was joking when he was captured on video speaking to Bay County GOP members about the plan during a Nov. 7 political rally.
“We absolutely have to hold the Senate and we have to start fighting back, and we have to do whatever it takes,” Price said in the video. “And if that means changing your address for the next two months, so be it. I’m doing that. I’m moving to Georgia, and I’m gonna fight, and I want you all to fight with me,” he advised the crowd.
Holden said she’s interested in learning whether any other out-of-state residents tried to register in Georgia after being encouraged to do so by this man at the Florida rally.
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