Secretary Raffensperger Announces Cross-State Double Voting Indictment

Atlanta, GA – Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Friday the prosecution of an alleged case of double-voting in the 2022 General Election. Following the 2022 election, the Secretary of State’s Investigations Division launched a probe following complaints of double-voting in that election. Using information obtained from Georgia’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center’s (ERIC) Cross State Voter Participation Project, the state identified potential instances of double-voting.

“Any illegal vote undermines a citizen’s legal vote,” said Secretary Raffensperger. “One citizen, one vote – anyone who tries to run up the scoreboard will be prosecuted.”

As a result of this investigation, the Secretary of State’s office referred a case of double-voting to the Forsyth County District Attorney’s office that successfully pursued an indictment against an individual who allegedly cast ballots in both Georgia and Arizona. The individual is alleged to have voted in-person during the Advance Voting period on November 1st, 2022 in Georgia, and then cast an absentee ballot by mail in Maricopa County, Arizona on November 5th, 2022. Maricopa County provided a copy of the individual’s oath envelope on which they swore to be an eligible voter residing in that jurisdiction.

Information gleaned from this investigation may also indicate that the individual has cast ballots in both Georgia and Arizona during multiple elections.

The Secretary of State’s office is committed to ensuring the integrity of our elections and will continue to thoroughly investigate any allegations of election fraud.

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Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 17 days of early voting (which has been called the “gold standard”), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, and 2022. 2022 achieved the largest single day of in-person early voting turnout in Georgia midterm history utilizing Georgia’s secure, paper ballot voting system. Most recently, Georgia ranked #1 for Election Integrity by the Heritage Foundation, a top ranking for Voter Accessibility by the Center for Election Innovation & Research and tied for number one in Election Administration by the Bipartisan Policy Center.