Georgia GOP vice chairman who claimed 2020 voter fraud fined for voting illegally 9 times

Georgia Republican Party's first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, committed voter fraud by casting a ballot while serving probation for felony check forgery.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs of the State Board of Elections ordered Pritchard to pay a $5,000 fine and receive a public reprimand.

Pritchard is a conservative talk show host who has claimed there was voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the report said. He argued that he was unaware that he had not completed his probation before voting.

"The court does not find the respondent's explanations credible or convincing," Boggs' ruling said. "At the very least, even if the court accepts he did not know about his felony sentences, the record before this court demonstrates that he should have known."

Pritchard was said to have voted in nine elections while still on probation. He first registered to vote in Georgia in 2008.

"I felt it ended," Pritchard said following the hearing. "Do you think the first time I voted I said, 'Oh, I got away with it. Let's do it eight more times?'"

The felony check forgery charges stem from a 1996 guilty plea in Pennsylvania involving $38,000 worth of checks.

"His probation initially lasted three years, but Pennsylvania judges repeatedly extended it until 2011 for allegedly failing to pay restitution, court records showed. Pritchard maintained that he didn't owe money and he thought that case was resolved," the Journal-Constitution said.