The plot from this season’s has captured the attention on the state of Georgia’s top
elections official. The season premiere of the final season for the improv
comedy featured star-creator for violating the state’s
election integrity law for giving his friend Leon Black’s (JB Smoove) aunt (played by Ellia English) a bottle of water while she waited in line to vote during a hot day in Atlanta. Larry (played by David) — whose mugshot invoked Donald Trump’s, when the former president was in Georgia — is now facing on the series. The premiere storyline has been hanging over the entirety of the final season, which wraps with its series finale this Sunday. The storyline also must have made its way to the state capitol, because last month Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, sent a letter to David addressing the plotline about the 2021 voting law. The the letter in a public records request. “As the chief elections officer for the State of Georgia, we’d like to congratulate you on becoming the first and, to our knowledge, only person arrested for distributing water bottles to voters within 150 feet of a polling station,” Raffensperger wrote, before adding a not-so-subtle jab at Trump, whose . “We apologize if you didn’t receive celebrity treatment at the local jail. I’m afraid they’ve gotten used to bigger stars. It’s the TMZ of mugshots.” Raffensperger went on to defend his record and the law (albeit, with tongue planted firmly in cheek), writing that David would be “glad to hear that waiting times for all voters, including Leon’s aunt, in the last two major elections were under two minutes, even as we experienced record turnout.” And though David’s legal jeopardy remains in limbo, Raffensperger added that, unfortunately, he lacks the authority to give him a pardon — as TV Larry still faces up to one year in
prison and a fine of $10,000 for obstructing the election process in the state of Georgia. The plot had previously prompted a , the deputy
Secretary of State in Georgia. s executive producer at the time told he was glad Fuchs was watching, but wanted to make it clear that he thinks it’s a “terrible” law. “I think a lot of people didn’t know that was actually a law, because it seems like something that would not be in America,” . “And calling it the Election Integrity Act is the height of cynicism. It’s like
North Korea being called the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” In a prior interview, Schaffer also shed light on how they plotted Larry’s Trump-like mugshot, as well as why they wanted to make When they were plotting this season, that David said, “’You know there’s this crazy law in Georgia where you can’t give food or water to someone in a voting line.’ And he said, ‘I think it’d be really funny if I got arrested for doing that.’ It’s just crazy we took long enough that Trump was finally able to get arrested.” He continued, “In fact, the [Larry] mugshot at the end of the premiere was never in the show when we wrote it and when we shot it. But as we were sitting around with the strike [delay] and we couldn’t do anything, the Orange Menace got arrested in Atlanta and I told Larry, “You got arrested in Atlanta. That crazy Orange Asshole got arrested in Atlanta. We should do the mugshot,'” said Schaffer, referencing the
Hollywood halt amid the 2023 writers and actors strike. “So then we had to wait until the strike was over to even do the photo and put it in the show. I know it seems like that was always the master plan and that we were building toward that, but it’s really just a byproduct of waiting around and it fell in our laps.” He added that, for the mugshot, they added “too much [bronzer]. And then we had to tone it down. We had to straddle the line of it actually being Larry’s mugshot. But I think we got enough with the scowl that everybody knew what we were doing.” Read Raffensperger’s full letter, below. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter