ConservativeBrief reported earlier today that Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood has been cleared in an investigation to determine if he violated Georgia election laws by moving to another state before voting last year.
“The State Election Board voted on Tuesday to dismiss the case the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched in February into where Wood had been living when he voted early in person in Georgia during the 2020 general election. A spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office said there was no violation found,” Newsweek reported.
“The investigation was launched once the secretary of state’s office found out from a television reporter that Wood had possibly been living in South Carolina at the time he voted. On February 1, Wood announced on Telegram he had moved to the state from Georgia,” the outlet added.
“A person’s residence is considered ‘that place in which such person’s habitation is fixed, without any present intention of removing therefrom’ under Georgia law. The measure also states that if a person moves to another state ‘with the intention of making it such person’s residence, such person shall be considered to have lost such person’s residence in this state,’” the outlet continued.
Wood argued that he was “domiciled in South Carolina for several months after purchasing property in the state in April.”
“While I spent time in South Carolina in 2020, I considered myself domiciled in Georgia and a resident of Georgia at all times in 2020,” Wood wrote. He added he voted in person in Georgia on October 21 for the 2020 general election, but did not vote in January for the Senate runoff.
The state of Georgia has remained in the news lately.
Former GOP Sen. David Perdue of Georgia will primary the Peach State’s current Republican governor, Brian Kemp, next spring.
And what’s more, Perdue already has a party heavyweight in his corner: Donald Trump.
