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submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

A prominent Georgia state Republican, who has repeatedly claimed the 2020 election was stolen, was found to have voted illegally nine times.

Brian Pritchard, the first vice chairman of the state Republican Party, violated state election laws when he voted illegally in nine elections from 2008 to 2010, a Georgia judge ruled Wednesday. At the time he cast those votes, Pritchard was still on probation after being convicted of a forgery felony in Pennsylvania in 1996.

Georgia is one of 15 states that bars people from voting until they have completed their sentence, including probation. Judge Lisa Boggs ordered Pritchard to pay a $5,000 fine for his illegal votes. He will also receive a public reprimand.

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[-] jettrscga@lemmy.world 238 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A $5000 fine?

Meanwhile there's the article about the black woman who got 5 years in prison for a provisional ballot when she didn't know she couldn't vote after a felony.

It blows my mind how systemically racist the US is.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 117 points 8 months ago

Worse than that, she asked and was told by an election official it was ok to vote. Then was arrested and imprisoned.

I believe she was recently released thankfully but damage done.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

shes been out on bond most of this time, but the trial did recently end after they found she did not have any intentional or malicious intent in her mistake of voting.

[-] _wizard@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Moral of the story: be white, male, and obedient.

[-] treefrog@lemm.ee 42 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure how he was being obedient. He knew he was on felony probation and voted illegally anyway.

[-] DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

He was obedient to the party

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Really it's just "Be White".

[-] Kroxx@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago
[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago
[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah you definitely lose buffer if you're white male and on the left side of the political spectrum.

The holy trinity is white male (good Christian) conservative.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

if you are a white christian male, why you even get slaps on the wrists for things as horrific as long term, habitual child molestation and rape.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Skill issue

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah, well this guy was white after all and even though he did this with malicious intent, the racist judge and justice system knew deep down he didn't really, really mean to undermine democracy.

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago

Don't you know there is no systemic racism because the laws don't state in their text that they apply to minorities more harshly than white people?

/s

[-] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 60 points 8 months ago

Oh that's such a delicious irony... Also, letting a guy who was convicted of felony forgery become vice president of the republican party is so fitting for the party of election frauds.

With that said, I do think that prisoners should be allowed to vote as they are still citizens, even while in prison, let alone during their probation.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago

Not finally, lots of Republicans were caught voting fraudulently in the last couple years.

Pretty sure they're the only ones as well.

But the headline downplays the problem.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 47 points 8 months ago

Gaslight, Obstruct, PROJECT

[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

It's always a confession. The number of actual trans and pedo Republicans must be off the charts.

[-] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

I think it’s really hard for them to imagine other people are not doing the thing they’re doing. Especially in this case. Apparently it’s easy to vote 9 times, and “if I’m doing it, then it would be stupid if Dems didn’t”.

So yeah, it’s always projection, because they just can’t imagine a world where others choose the morally right option.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

"they must have cheated, after all, we cheated at every opportunity and still lost." - Republicans

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"You don't understand, I had to do it to compensate for all the cheating happening on the other side!"

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago

You must have cheated because I did and still didn't win. So you did not play better, you cheated better.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

"If I'm doing all this cheating, then imagine what the democrats are doing!"

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 8 months ago

He should be put back on probation, even super-light-barely-means-anything probation. Just to kill his voting power for a few years, to make up for the years he was irresponsible.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Back to prison for violating terms of probation please

[-] Therealgoodjanet@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I would say he has used his next nine votes prematurely, so not being able to vote the upcoming nine elections only seems fair.

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 14 points 8 months ago

Every accusation is a confession, as per standard procedure.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

Every accusation is a confession

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

It’s wild, because if they’d have found one democrat who did the same, the entire conservative sphere would be braying for them to be drawn and quartered.

[-] Dagamant@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Of course they think the election was stolen, they tried like mad to steal it and failed so it’s obvious that someone stole harder than them.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This. They assume everyone is just as mentally, morally, financially, and politically corrupt as them. They think it's a badge of honor to be open about their evils because everyone else is just in denial.

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