The New Georgia Project, a prominent voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams, has been fined $300,000 by the state ethics commission of Georgia for illegally campaigning for Abrams and other Democratic candidates during the 2018 election cycle.
The consent order ends a years-long investigation that the voting rights group had broken state campaign finance laws by raising and spending millions in support of a candidate without proper registration and disclosure. The fine is the largest in Georgia history, according to the state ethics commission.
