Stacey Abrams Hit with Record-Breaking Fine – EVOL

Stacey Abrams, the two-time failed Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia, saw the nonprofit she founded before running for office hit with a massive six-figure fine over election law violations — one that ethics watchdogs say is the largest in state history.

David Emadi, executive director of Georgia’s ethics commission, said the $300,000 fine levied against Abrams and the leaders of the New Georgia Project is the largest in the commission’s 38-year history. This underlines how drastically the voter registration group schemed to illegally boost Abrams’s long-shot rematch against Gov. Brian Kemp in 2022. The progressive darling benefited from a host of voter registration activities targeting minority communities ahead of Election Day.

In 2013, Abrams established and helmed the New Georgia Project, and following her 2018 loss, the group capitalized on Abrams’ national recognition from her first race to raise about $3.2 million and put the state’s Democratic Party on a more successful course, which ultimately led to the election of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) — who helped the New Georgia Project at the time of the violations — and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in 2020.

Many of the group’s bills were paid for canvassers and flyers printed to

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