Secretary of State Brian Kemp accepted an administrative law judge’s recommendation released earlier Monday and ordered Tyrone Brooks Jr. eliminated as a candidate for his father’s House seat.
The judge said the younger Brooks failed to establish proof of a yearlong residency in District 55.
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 Kemp’s order.
The elder Brooks, a longtime 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.
The candidates still in the race are Alysia Brown, a project manager; Mike Fitzgerald, a small business owner; John Guest, an interior designer; Marie Robison Metze, a retired educator; Raghu Raju, an attorney; and Shelitha Robertson, an attorney.
Judge Michael Malihi found that the younger Brooks 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.
Brooks also admitted that as late as November 2014 he had voted in House District 57.
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