A group set up to help minorities register to vote may have actually engaged in voter fraud, according to an investigation by the Georgia secretary of state.
Six counties contacted Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s office with “potentially fraudulent voter applications forms,” the Marietta Daily Journal reported Saturday.
The forms came from a group called the New Georgia Project, which was founded by the state’s highest-ranking Democrat, state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams.
On Tuesday, Kemp’s office sent a letter to all 159 county election offices, and so far 13 have reported potential voter fraud.
“My understanding is that there were several applications with the same handwriting that appeared to be written by the same person but signed by different people. That sort of thing,” Janine Eveler, director of the Cobb Board of Elections, told the Marietta Daily Journal.
Kemp, a Republican, has subpoenaed the New Georgia Project and demanded it turn over documents by Tuesday.
Abrams told the local NBC station that her organization has registered 155,000 voters, and that when a canvasser apparently fills out forms inaccurately or fraudulently, “our answer is we fire the people who made the mistake and make sure we improve our training,” Abrams said.
“That’s what we’ve done every single time.”
Kemp told NBC that his investigators had been talking to people “who’d had their names forged on voter registration documents.”
