In the rich tradition of Trump figures who accuse other parties of something they themselves may have done, lawyer Lin Wood – who has spent much of the past three months falsely stating massive evidence of electoral fraud – is now under investigation for election fraud in Georgia.
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The investigation, first reported by the Atlanta WSB-TV station and later confirmed by NBC News, is being conducted by Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, whose office is determining whether Wood was a legal resident of the state when he voted in November. Sources in the secretary of state’s office told WSB-TV that an email that Wood sent to the news station on February 1 – in which he said he was “domiciled in South Carolina for several months after buying a property in state in April “- first warned Raffensperger.
The secretary of state’s office told NBC News that Georgia law dictates that “if a person moves to another state with the intention of making it that person’s residence, that person will be considered to have lost that person’s residence in that state ”.
A few weeks were difficult for the high-profile conspirator and defamation lawyer who sued unsuccessfully to overturn the election results in several states reversed by President Biden. On January 6, hours before the Capitol riot, Wood tweeted that it was “time to fight for our freedom”. The next day, he was suspended and then permanently banned from Twitter. In late January, students at Mercer University, his alma mater, pressed to remove his name from a court dedication. The State Bar of Georgia requested that he undergo a mental health assessment to continue practicing law in his home state.
After news of the investigation was released, Wood called Raffensperger a “loser” who “goes to jail”.
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