“Oh man” is right.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that Hershel Walker’s wife, Julie Blanchard, may have accidentally committed voter fraud when she voted absentee using her Georgia address in the 2020 election.
According to the report, the Walkers claimed a homestead exemption on their Texas home making the vote in Georgia “potentially illegal”:
Oh man. The call is coming from inside the house…
Herschel Walker’s wife, who also lives in Texas, voted in Georgia using an absentee ballot.
They have a homestead exemption for the Texas home. It’s potentially illegal.
Great find by @markniesse! https://t.co/wb9UXbmDIi
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) August 10, 2021
Walker has said in the past that only legal ballots should count and that “anyone manipulating this election should be prosecuted”:
Nov. 4, 2020: Herschel Walker tweets: "Anyone manipulating this election should be prosecuted."
Aug. 10, 2021: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Walker's wife, Julie Blanchard, voted illegally in Georgia last November while living in Texas.https://t.co/VWAULYTcHO
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) August 10, 2021
Lock her up?
Herschel Walker wants his wife locked up. Now THAT'S political commitment. https://t.co/3NJYJImo58
— Christian Christensen (@ChrChristensen) August 10, 2021
Blanchard reportedly told the paper that she thought she could legally vote anywhere she had a home:
Narrator voice: no, you cannot vote everywhere you have a home.
“Play by the rules…..the American people demand ONLY LEGAL BALLOTS be counted. Anyone manipulating this election should be prosecuted,” Herschel Walker tweeted in November.
🧐https://t.co/wb9UXbmDIi pic.twitter.com/jAyvpFvoxB
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) August 10, 2021
And now Texas reporters are now questioning if she voted in her home state, too:
Is she…saying she voted in both places? #txlege https://t.co/KaNqhdtzPY pic.twitter.com/4NTKGShFWa
— EricaGrieder (@EricaGrieder) August 10, 2021
And this would become an even bigger issue if Walker decides to run for the U.S. Senate:
There are many reasons that it is unlikely (but not impossible) Herschel Walker runs for Senate in Georgia. This sums a lot of them up, from the whole living in Texas thing to a lack of campaign apparatus/presence at events to a fundamental lack of understanding about government.
— stephen fowler (@stphnfwlr) August 10, 2021
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