Georgia Ethics Commission is still investigating 2018 ties between Stacey Abrams and voter group [View all]

Source: AP

Updated 6:03 PM EST, November 13, 2025


ATLANTA (AP) — The head of the Georgia Ethics Commission said Thursday that his agency is still trying to prove whether or not a voter advocacy group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams illegally coordinated election work with Abrams’ unsuccessful 2018 campaign for governor.

David Emadi, the commission’s executive director, told a state Senate committee that the question of coordination is still under investigation. It has been more than seven years since the 2018 election and 10 months since the New Georgia Project admitted illegal activity relating to raising and spending money to influence the 2018 election and a 2019 transit referendum in suburban Gwinnett County.

Under state law, the group was supposed to register as an independent campaign committee and disclose donors and spending. The New Georgia Project, which has since dissolved, paid a $300,000 fine, the largest ethics fine in state history. “I can say that is something that has been and is being investigated,” Emadi said. “I think I can say that at previous hearings we presented evidence, and some of that evidence certainly gave credence to that question of whether or not coordination occurred.”

The New Georgia Project and Abrams have always denied coordinating spending and activity, which is illegal under state law. Evidence of contacts disclosed by the Ethics Commission between the group and Abrams’ first campaign for governor has been thin.

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