FL Man Tries To Register To Vote In GA, Now Under Investigation

DALLAS, GA — A Florida Republican is being investigated by Georgia elections officials after he tried to register to vote — unsuccessfully — using his brother’s address in Hiram.

The attempt to register was moved to “pending” status for inspection because Bill Price, a Florida attorney, didn’t provide a Georgia’s driver’s license number or other proof of address, according to Paulding elections supervisor Deidre Holden.

In a statement announcing the investigation, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Price had announced he was moving to Georgia to vote in a Nov. 7 speech to the Bay County Florida Republican Party. Price also “exhorted those in attendance to be ‘his roommate in Georgia’ and also register to vote fraudulently in the state.”

Price was seen announcing his move in a since-deleted Facebook live video. He also gave specific advice to others at the GOP meeting in the video on how to register in Georgia.

“We have to win that election in Georgia, so I’m moving to my brother’s house in Hiram, Georgia, and I’m registering to vote,” Price said, as reported by WSB-TV in Atlanta. “And we are going to win that election in January.”

When a reporter from the Atlanta TV station reached Price by email Tuesday evening, the Florida attorney claimed he was kidding.

“I did not change my voter registration and I don’t have 2 million roommates,” Price wrote to WSB-TV reporter Nicole Carr. “But if my humorous comments bring attention to the massive and widespread voter fraud in Georgia, I would submit to you that it’s a good thing.”

Carr confirmed that Price did try to register in Georgia the day after he spoke to his county’s Republican party. Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp have repeatedly warned that moving to Georgia just to vote is illegal.

“Everybody’s always screaming, ‘the elections are fraudulent,’” Holden said to The Associated Press. “No, we’re just trying to do our job.” She added that “it just breaks my heart to see that our country has come to this.”