The quest to uncover voter fraud is again landing at the GOP’s front door: the wife of rumored Republican candidate in the upcoming US Senate race in Georgia reportedly voted illegally in Georgia, even though she’s a resident of Texas, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
Julie Blanchard cast an absentee ballot in Fulton County using an address in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, where she owns a house, even though she and her former football player-husband live in Westlake, Texas.
Walker, a Texas resident who was a celebrated running back at the University of Georgia, is being touted as a high-profile candidate in the 2022 Senate race against Democrat Senator Raphael Warnock. He has enthusiastically taken up the mantle of Donald Trump’s Big Lie regarding the 2020 election and called for people who voted fraudulently to be prosecuted.
“If we’re residents in both places, is that legally wrong?” Blanchard said when reached by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday. “If you have multiple homes, you can’t vote where you have a home?” She hung up abruptly when asked follow-up questions.
Blanchard and Walker purchased their home in Westlake using a homestead exemption, identifying the house as their primary residence. Blanchard did not use a homestead exemption for her Buckhead house.
The Georgia Secretary of State has not commented if it will pursue charges against Blanchard.