Stacey Abrams’s Georgia Voting Rights Group Ordered To Pay Historic Fine After Admitting To Illegally Funding Her 2018 Campaign

‘This represents the largest and most significant instance of an organization illegally influencing our statewide elections.’

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Stacey Abrams at Atlanta on November 8, 2022. AP/Ben Gray

A pair of voting rights advocacy groups founded by the *former state lawmaker and erstwhile gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams of Georgia will have to fork over $300,000 after admitting that they illegally supported her gubernatorial campaign in 2018. 

The fine is the largest ever imposed by a state commission over a campaign finance case, the Georgia State Ethics Commission said on Wednesday. 

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