Georgia’s secretary of state has opened an investigation into whether pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood voted illegally in the November election.
ABC’s Atlanta affiliated station, WSB-TV, first reported on the investigation into Wood, which The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) later confirmed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, NPR and other news.
The investigation comes after Wood became one of the most prominent legal voices President Trump
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In a statement sent by email to NBC News, the secretary of state said the ongoing investigation focuses on whether Wood was “legal resident when he voted in November in light of an email he sent [WSB-TV reporter] Justin Gray said he has been living in South Carolina for several months. “
The office added that, under Georgian state law, “if a person moves to another state with the intent to convert that person’s residence, he or she will be deemed to have lost that person’s residence. in this state “.
Raffensperger’s office did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for additional comments.
In a statement sent to WSB-TV and other outlets Tuesday evening, Wood said he had “he had resided in the state of Georgia since 1955, ”but on Monday he had officially changed his residence to South Carolina.
Wood added in the statement, “This is pure harassment by the Georgia Secretary of State because I have revealed credible evidence of election fraud by Brad Raffensperger.”
“They are trying to destroy me because I am revealing a top-down level of corruption,” Wood said in statements to the Journal-Constitution. “Brad Raffensperger has a lot of problems with people who were not legitimate citizens of Georgia. I’m not one of them. “
Raffensperger has repeatedly denied allegations of electoral fraud in Georgia and denied Trump’s demands a January 2 phone call a “Find” more than 11,000 ballots to publicize Peach state election results. The Washington Post published excerpts from the call earlier this month.
Biden won the state of Georgia in November by more than 11,000 votes – the first time a Democrat has won in a reliable red state since 1992, when former President Clinton won.
State election records revealed that Wood voted in the presidential election during the first face-to-face voting on Oct. 14, although he told WSB-TV that he did not vote in the January second Senate election because he did not. he believed they were legitimate.
Wood was one of Trump’s loyal followers removed from Twitter after the pro-Trump crowd attack on January 6 at the Capitol, and the city of Detroit earlier this week asked Wood and other Trump lawyers be discarded on attempts to change the outcome of the presidential election.