Georgia’s foreign secretary of state is investigating whether pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood voted illegally during the November election.
ABC’s affiliate station in Atlanta, WSB-TV, first investigated the Wood, which Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) later confirmed to SU Atlanta Journal-Constitution, NPR and other newspapers.
The investigation comes after Wood became one of the most famous legal voices in the previous stage President Trump
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In an email statement to NBC News, the foreign minister said the ongoing investigation was aimed at whether Wood’s a legal resident when he voted in November in light of an email he sent to [WSB-TV reporter] Justin Gray says he has been based in South Carolina for several months. ‘
The office added that under the Georgia Constitution, “if a person moves to another country with the intent to make it such a person’s home, he or she shall be deemed to have such a person in this has lost state. “
Raffensperger’s office did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for further comment.
In a statement sent to WSB-TV and other stores on Tuesday night, Wood said he ‘since 1955 a resident of the state of Georgia, ”but officially changed his residence to South Carolina on Monday.
Wood added in the statement: “This is pure harassment by Georgia’s Secretary of State because I have revealed credible evidence of election fraud on the part of Brad Raffensperger.”
“They’re trying to destroy me because I’re exposing a level of corruption from top to bottom,” Wood told the Journal-Constitution. ‘Brad Raffensperger has a lot of problems with people who were not legal citizens of Georgia. I am not one of them. ”
Raffensperger has repeatedly refuted allegations of voter fraud in Georgia and requests from Trump in a call from January 2 on “Find” more than 11,000 ballot papers to reverse the election result of the Peach state. The Washington Post released excerpts from the call earlier this month.
Biden won the state of Georgia by more than 11,000 votes in November – the first time a Democrat in the trusted red state has won since 1992, when former President Clinton won.
According to state election records, Wood voted in the early personal vote during the presidential election on October 14, although he told WSB-TV that he did not vote in the Senate by-elections in January because he did not believe it was legal.
Wood was one of several Trump loyalists removed from Twitter in the aftermath of the January 6 pro-Trump attack at the Capitol, and the city of Detroit asked Wood and other Trump attorneys earlier this week. be barred on attempts to change the outcome of the presidential election.