Two men have been charged with felonies for voting twice in the 2022 election, the first known criminal prosecutions for Georgia voting fraud in recent years. Grand juries in Forsyth and Fannin counties this month indicted the defendants for casting in-person ballots in Georgia and voting again in other states — Arizona and Texas — during the November 2022 midterm elections.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sought the prosecutions based on data generated by the voter accuracy organization ERIC, which identified these voters by matching election records across its 24 member states and the District of Columbia. The two prosecutions came from 17 cases of alleged double-voting that Raffensperger referred to prosecutors in nine counties. In other cases, prosecutors have said they’re still investigating or they lacked probable cause to bring charges.
The indictments come with maximum prison sentences of 10 years, a departure from most election violations that typically result in fines and reprimands.
