{"id":6219,"date":"2020-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/"},"modified":"2020-12-02T16:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:35:49","slug":"georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Secretary Of State Investigating Voter Registration Group Run By Democrat Raphael Warnock"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-secretary-of-state-investigating-voter-registration-group-run-by-democrat-raphael-warnock%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=6219&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The New Georgia Project, an organization founded by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/08\/18\/the-arc-of-stacey-abrams\">failed 2018 gubernatorial candidate<\/a> Stacey Abrams and formerly led by Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/2020-election\/warnock-led-voter-registration-group-under-investigation\/\">under investigation<\/a> for allegedly sending ballot applications to non-residents.<\/p>\n<p>During his time as CEO of the organization from 2017 until February this year, Warnock assisted in the group\u2019s efforts to register \u201cnearly 400,000 people from underrepresented communities to vote in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is currently examining a potential violation of state law that may have occurred when the organization sent voter registration applications to New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoting in Georgia when you are not a resident of Georgia is a felony,\u201d Raffensperger said at a press conference. \u201cThese third-party groups have a responsibility to not encourage illegal voting. If they do so, they will be held responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the self-described \u201cnonpartisan\u201d group, Raffensperger will also be investigating three other organizations accused of \u201cimproper registration activities.\u201d These include America Votes, which reportedly mailed \u201cabsentee ballot applications to people at addresses where they have not lived since 1994,\u201d Vote Forward which allegedly registered a dead voter from another state for Georgia elections, and Operation New Voter Registration Georgia which \u201cis accused of recommending college students temporarily change their residency for the purpose of voting in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Warnock claimed in 2017 that \u201cusing the word voter fraud is alarmist, and it was totally unnecessary,\u201d the secretary of state\u2019s office previously investigated the organization after reports of forged voter registration applications in 2014. After a referral to law enforcement in 2017, the case never resulted in any charges.<\/p>\n<p>This lack of charges, Warnock said, was because the group has \u201cexcellent internal controls and that we have followed the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this most recent investigation, the reverend recently came under fire after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/16\/democrat-senate-candidate-raphael-warnock-refuses-to-answer-questions-about-past-child-abuse-investigation\">reports resurfaced of his involvement in a 2002 police investigation<\/a> when he, along with another minister, allegedly prevented law enforcement officers from interviewing counselors from the church\u2019s camp following reports of suspected child abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock will face off with Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler in the Georgia Senate runoff race in January, one of the two races that could decide the fate of the GOP\u2019s current majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Georgia Project, an organization founded by failed 2018 gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and formerly led by Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, is under investigation for allegedly sending ballot applications to non-residents. During his time as CEO of the organization from 2017 until February this year, Warnock assisted in the group\u2019s efforts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}