Court Finds GOP Party Official And Anti-'Voter Fraud' Activist Voted Illegally 9 Times
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Georgia Republican official Brian Pritchard must pay a $5,000 fine.
A Georgia Republican Party official who baselessly claimed there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election voted illegally nine times, a judge determined Wednesday.
Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, received a public reprimand for voting in multiple elections in 2008 and 2010, even though the terms of his probation forbade it until 2011. He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and cover investigative costs.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was the first to report on his punishment Thursday.
Pritchard, who was convicted of felony check forgery in Pennsylvania in 1996, testified that he thought his probation had ended in 1999. Lisa Boggs, the administrative law judge overseeing Pritchard’s case, didn’t buy that argument.
“To accept that [his] grasp of legal proceedings was so unsophisticated that he did not understand the basic terms of his probation in 1996 or his probation revocation in 1999, this Court would need to disregard [his] self-described experience as a businessman handling complex projects as well as million-dollar contracts and budgets,” Boggs wrote in her decision.