A Georgia GOP congressman who backed Trump's election lies voted in the wrong county, but his spokesman insists it wasn't a 'devious ploy'
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- A GOP Congressman in Georgia may have broken the state's voting law by casting ballots in the wrong county.
- Rep. Drew Ferguson voted in the county where he used to live during the 2022 election cycle.
- Ferguson has been an advocate against voter fraud since the 2020 election and backed Trump's election lies.
A Republican US Congressman from Georgia appears to have broken his state's voting law by casting a ballot in the wrong county three times in the 2022 election cycle.
Rep. Drew Ferguson lives in west Georgia in a town called The Rock with his wife, Julie, according to his Congressional website. Ferguson moved to the Pike County town in April but never updated his voter registration to reflect the move, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Wednesday.
The Journal-Constitution cited voting records showing that Ferguson voted in this year's primary, general election, and Georgia Senate runoff election as a resident of Troup County, where he used to live.
According to Georgia's secretary of state, in order to register to vote in Georgia, a person must be a US citizen, a legal resident of Georgia, and live in the county where they wish to vote.
Georgia Code 21-2-571 states that it is illegal to vote without possessing all of the qualifications, and a person who violates the legal requirements could be found guilty of a felony.
In a statement to Insider, Ferguson's spokesman said the congressman was a "lifelong" resident of West Point in Troup County and was "registered to vote in his hometown."
"When going to vote in the 2022 primary, an administrative error mistakenly showed his address being in Pine Mountain despite never having lived there," the spokesman said. "Congressman Ferguson resolved the issue, and proceeded to vote in Troup County for the primary, general, and run-off elections."
"Congressman Ferguson is currently in the process of transitioning his residency to his new home in Pike County," the spokesman added. "To mischaracterize a clerical error as a devious ploy to cast a vote in the county of his hometown is ridiculous and irresponsible."
Ferguson vocally opposed voter fraud, even signing his name to a brief sent to the Supreme Court as part of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit brought by Texas AG Ken Paxton arguing the Supreme Court should step in to prevent swing states won by Biden from certifying their 2020 election results.
The brief said that 116 US members of Congress, including Ferguson, supported reviewing 2020 election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because "the election of 2020 has been riddled with an unprecedented number of serious allegations of fraud and irregularities."
The brief said that "it is the solemn duty of this Court to provide an objective review of these anomalies and to determine for the people if indeed the Constitution has been followed and the rule of law maintained."
The Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas lawsuit.
According to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, the Georgia Secretary of State's office said it hasn't yet opened an investigation into Ferguson's possible voter fraud because it has not received a complaint. The office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.