Democratic Primary challenger Jasmine Clark slammed U.S. Rep. David Scott for staying home for the last presidential elections.
According to a voter file obtained by the campaign, the 12-term incumbent has skipped six straight elections as a voter.
“Our right to vote is sacred and consistently under attack,” said Clark, a Democratic state Representative challenging Scott. “I cannot fathom any elected official asking his constituents for their votes every two years while not even bothering to go vote himself. We need leaders who will do everything possible to turn out votes for Democrats up and down the ballot in 2026.”
The campaign provided a voter file it said was obtained through Georgia’s Open Records Act, which shows Scott’s voting record dating back to 1988.
Southeast Politics also obtained the same voter filed from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
It shows Scott last voted in May 2024, when he defeated six Democratic Primary challengers. But he did not vote again the rest of the year.
Clark took particular issue with Scott failing to vote in November, when Georgia was a battleground state in the Presidential election. The Peach State’s electoral votes ultimately went to Republican Donald Trump, who defeated Democrat Kamala Harris, who hoped to be America’s first Black woman President.
“How can voters trust him to truly stand up for them when he didn’t even do the bare minimum to stop Donald Trump?” Clark said. “From missing votes in DC, to missing town halls at home, Rep. Scott hasn’t shown up for his community when it really matters, and now we know that he can’t even be trusted to show up to vote when democracy is on the line.”
Of course, while it is true Scott did not vote for himself in the November General Election, the voter file shows he could not have done so anyway. The 80-year-old Democrat lives in Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, not in the 13th, which he represents, according to the form.
He did vote in both the Primary and General Election in the 2022 Midterms, and he voted in the 2020 General Election, where Democrat Joe Biden won Georgia’s electoral votes on his way to unseating Trump after his first term. He also voted in every other Midterm and Presidential General Election from the time he was first elected to Congress in 2022. But he has skipped a number of smaller elections along the way.
