Updated at 5:30 p.m.: Secretary of State Brian Kemp accepted a judge's recommendation released earlier today and ordered Tyrone Brooks Jr. eliminated as a candidate for his father's House seat.
The judge said Brooks Jr. failed to establish proof of a year-long residency in the Atlanta district.
Read the order here. With no time to reprint the ballot, which contains the names of six other candidates, all votes cast for Brooks "shall be void and shall not be counted," according to the Kemp order.
Original post: An administrative law judge has recommended that Tyrone Brooks Jr. be struck from the June 16 contest to fill his father's House District 55 seat.
The final decision is up to Secretary of State Brian Kemp. “Secretary Kemp is reviewing the decision and will issue an order determining whether Tyrone Brooks, Jr. is qualified shortly,” a spokesman told us.
The elder Tyrone Brooks, a long-time civil rights leader, resigned his House seat in April, shortly before pleading guilty to a single count of federal tax fraud and no contest to five charges of mail and wire fraud.
Six other candidates remain in the race: Alysia Brown, a project manager; Mike Fitzgerald, a small business owner; John Guest, an interior designer; Marie Robison Metze, retired educator; Raghu Raju, attorney; and Shelitha Robertson, attorney.
The judge found that Brooks Jr. could prove residency in the city of Atlanta district as of July 25, 2014, but could not provide evidence that he had lived there on June 16, 2014.
“Other than his driver’s license and his own testimony, there is no evidence on record to demonstrate that Respondent established residency at Childress Drive, or anywhere else in House District 55, on or before 2014,” Judge Michael Malihi ruled.
Brooks Jr. also admitted that as late as November 2014, he voted in House District 57. You can scroll through the document below:
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