Associated Press
Election officials are investigating the actions of a Florida lawyer who they say tried to register to vote in a high-stakes runoff in Georgia that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. They say he was also captured on video urging other Floridians to do the same.
Moving to Georgia just to vote — with no intention of staying in the state afterward — can amount to a felony, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement Thursday announcing the investigation.
The lawyer Bill Price of Panama City went online and attempted to register to vote using the address of his brother in Hiram, Georgia, said Deidre Holden, the elections supervisor in Paulding County, Georgia. The system put his registration in a pending status because he didn’t provide a Georgia driver’s license number or other proof of address.
WSB-TV in Atlanta reported Thursday that Price is seen in a now-deleted Facebook Live video, speaking to the Bay County GOP members in Florida on Nov. 7th, and encouraging others to also register in Georgia.
“We absolutely have to hold the Senate and we have to start fighting back, and we have to do whatever it takes,” Price said in the video, according to the WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News report. “And if that means changing your address for the next two months, so be it. I’m doing that. I’m moving to Georgia and I’m gonna fight and I want you all to fight with me.”
Price told WSB-TV that he was joking when he was captured on video speaking about the plan. He denied any wrongdoing.
WSB-TV investigative reporter Nicole Carr said their contact was with William Banton Price of the Price Law Firm in Panama City. [There are at least four other lawyers in Florida named Bill Price, in West Palm Beach, Bradenton and Orlando, but it was not any of them.] Florida Politics asked the Panama City Bill Price for a response, but there was no immediate reply Friday morning.
“This is not about Republican or Democrat — this is about doing what’s right,” Holden told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Everybody’s always screaming, ‘The elections are fraudulent.’ No, we’re trying to do our job.
“We can’t send this message that just because we’re mad that our candidate didn’t win, we can go out and throw an election. It just breaks my heart to see that our country has come to this.”
Raffensperger has repeatedly said there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the November election.
But Holden said she’s interested in learning whether any other out-of-state residents tried to register in Georgia after being encouraged to do so at the Florida rally.
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Republished with permission from The Associated Press. Florida Politics staff contributed to this report.
4 comments
S B ANTHONY
December 4, 2020 at 9:40 am
He should be disbarred.
LINDIESUE
December 4, 2020 at 1:46 pm
There was a video released yesterday of what took place at the Atlanta Hawks arena on election day in Georgia {Fulton County.) At around 10:00 p.m., observers and media were told the counting was over for the night and to leave. Later, 4 to 6 folks stayed behind and started pulling suitcases full of ballots out from under a black table clothed covered table and proceeded to run them through the machines. For weeks evidence has been coming out in 6 states. The sudden stopping of counting in 6 states election night when Trump was well ahead is suspicious. Waking up the next morning to find out Biden gained the thousands Trump was ahead and gained thousands more, all of a sudden, called honest folks who demand election integrity to action. A truck driver has testified that thousands of filled out ballots for Biden was loaded on his truck in New York to be delivered in Pennsylvania. Hundreds upon hundreds of sworn affidavits under the penalty of perjury have been submitted in many states from folks who witnessed many fraudulent actions. We demand forensic audits to know truly which way the election went. We demand state legislatures, secretaries of state and governors to take action. Those who do not attempt to research all of the evidence that has been submitted to date, are part of the attempted steal of the election. An audit will prove either way. Honest people would demand it. Here’s the video. https://www.cbs46.com/news/lawmakers-hear-bombshell-allegations-of-georgia-election-fraud/article_8404e930-35e5-11eb-8ac3-1fc96e3b52d8.html
martin
December 5, 2020 at 7:42 am
Sure, lets string him up…gotta use him as an example. Yet all those illegal ballots in Fulton county (Atlanta) are allowed to stand.
No audits of these ballots, or elsewhere. Covid provided the perfect storm to allow for millions of improper ballots to be counted.
Ocean Joe
December 5, 2020 at 8:28 am
Trump lost fair and square.
He is a spoiled brat.
Stop getting up to change his diaper every time he cries.
The states where he claims issues are ALL controlled by Republican legislatures: AZ, GA, WIS, MI, PA. Those legislatures REFUSED to allow absentee or mail in ballots to be counted or even prepped for counting until election day. They slowed the process so he could pull this stunt.
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