Georgia GOP Official Who Whined About Stolen Election Voted Illegally Nine Times
Brian Pritchard, who hosts a conservative talk show, was accused of illegally voting while serving probation.
Surely, his sentencing will exceed hers right? Right?
āWhen he came to Georgia, he was aware that he was registering to vote illegally. He knew when he went in all nine times and signed that voter certificate, he was voting illegally,ā he said last February.
Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs agreed, and issued Pritchard a $5,000 fine, and ordered that he receive a public reprimand from the State Election Board.
Surely, you jest?!
Holy fuck thatās depressingly ridiculous. This is how our democracy ends? Really, idiots getting away with the dumbest shit and lightly scolded at worst.
I fucking hate it here. I need to leave.
he pleaded guilty, admitted he made a āstupid mistakeā
The string of conscious decisions over the length of time it took him to do that are in no way a "stupid mistake".
6 years for voting when it's also claimed to be a democratic right is insane. USA is a very dysfunctional democracy. Starting with first past the post, which is to blame for the undemocratic 2 party system.
Preventing people in conflict with the law from voting, is an obvious undemocratic and oppressive policy too. Like saying you can only vote if you agree.
People in positions of power or authority should be held to a higher standard, not an equal or lower one. He should get the book thrown at him and several years to think about why fucking with the elections is a bad idea.
Haha - oh no, no. No, there are certain . . mmmmm nuances that distinguish that case from this case. Hahaha. You know these cases, theyāre- theyāre complex, right . . . itās not just BLACK or WHITE, right? Haha right Texas?! Hahaha - yeah . . Texas gets it.
This just in, one of these was (finally) acquitted in appeals court, there has to be evidence they knew they weren't eligible (and being told you're eligible is pretty strong evidence to the contrary)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/crystal-mason-texas-woman-acquitted
Every accusation is a confession. Every single one. No exceptions.
At least when a Republican makes the accusation
Yup. Always. They can't see that everyone doesn't think and act like them.
I guess deflecting/projecting is a common manipulation technique that slimebags learn.
Lol this might actually be the biggest overstatement I've ever seen stated plainly on the internet
Not at all. The modern GOP is built on astounding levels of projection about their issues, their behavior, and their secrets.
If someone's ranting about voter fraud, it's probably someone like the guy in this article who committed a lot of it.
If someone's ranting about how horrible taxes are, it's probably someone who happily takes government handouts without a hint of shame or hypocrisy awareness.
If someone's ranting about the temptations of gay sex, his name's probably Larry "Wide Stance" Craig.
Seriously, every accusation they make is a confession. No exceptions.
āWe cheated so hard and still lost! They had to have stolen it!ā
All of these illegal votes happened before 2011. So your quote doesn't make any sense.
It's always projection.
"I KNOW there's fraud because I did it myself!"
That's what makes me nervous about Pizzagate
Fortunately, that seems to just be an outcropping of blood libel conspiracism.
I kinda figure that was Epstein.
Gaslight
Obstruct
Project
Projectionconfession - we need a new compound word just for them
A republican projecting their own unethical behavior?? Surely this is an isolated incident.
Shocked, I tell you! Never saw it coming!!
I understand his thought process: "i voted nine times and they still won, either I suck very hard or they voted more times than me" Sorry mate, reality is hard
Fuck these people.
I wonder whether he believed the lie that the election was rigged. If he justified it to himself by saying "well, the other side is doing it." Horrific.
Edit: I made a false assumption that this was 9 votes in the same election, where it was actually 9 different instances where he would have been allowed to vote, were it not for prior conviction. See the comment below (or the article- my bad) for clarification.
Edit 2: removed the piece in my edit about probation, it wasn't applicable.
RFTA. It's so short, FFS.
He didn't vote 9 times in the 2020 election (or since then). He was on probation in PA for a felony and couldn't legally vote in GA, but did anyway. I would assume in 9 different elections. He claims he thought it was legal for him to do so. Had he not been on probation in PA, all his votes would have been legal. (In fact, I believe he should have been able to vote, as I don't think being convicted of a crime should remove this fundamental right. But that's kind of besides the point here)
He broke the law and should be punished for it, especially for being one who claims that the people were voting illegally, but even guessing that he was doing this because he thought the 2020 election was stolen makes absolutely zero sense, because the bulk of these times (if not all of them) happened before then.
A lot of countries where the whole ID systems are a bit shaky use this system where a finger is dipped in dye once you've voted. Some US states should implement that.
(Does not apply in this case, though, as at it was pointed out to me, the issue is that he was in jail or something and thus couldn't vote. Unlike most countries where people in jails/prisons can vote as they are still people)
He didnāt actually vote 9 times in one election. Voting twice in an election is insanely rare. A bigger issue is votes being miscounted, which accounts for much larger discrepancies than illegal voting. Not that itās a huge discrepancy, just that illegal voting is so rare
Oh, right, it's about that weird US thing that people that have been jailed shouldn't vote.
Because if you're starving and grab stuff for your children that you can afford, then you shouldn't vote. It just makes sense, a responsible person should just drown their children to balance their budget.
Wait, then they couldn't vote either. Curse you voting authority, it's like you don't want some people to vote at all!
Itās always projection with them. No exceptions.
Of all the Republican faces...
he looks like he smells of deli meat
Deli meat and old cigarette smell, like what sticks to old tech that hasnt been near a cigarette for over a decade but it still lingers.
Looks like he doesn't wash his asshole because it feels too good to him and he's supposed to fight those feelings.
No way
Lock this mother fucker up!!!!
How can it even be possible to vote illegally once let alone so many times. Id be whinning about it too!
Maybe because asking for identification is communism?
(I don't know how voting works over there, just guessing)
This wasnāt a case that ID would fix. He registered illegally and voted under his own name. It wasnāt caught because government information is not shared very well between agencies in the US. Rather than the election officials actually checking, he had to sign a sworn declaration that he was legally allowed to vote as part of his registration, and lying in that sworn declaration is one of the things he was also charged with in this case.
ACAB