Georgia Election Official Responds to Critical ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Plotline

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent a tongue-in-cheek letter to Larry David, the show’s creator and star.

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Larry David in Los Angeles in January. Several episodes of his show have featured a story line taking aim at Georgia’s new voting laws.

Playing a maladjusted grouch on his TV show “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David manages to anger and irritate nearly everyone he comes across, whether they are waiters, casual acquaintances or even his closest friends.

Now, after several episodes of the show took aim at Georgia’s new voting laws, the real-life Larry appears to have drawn some good-humored annoyance from the state’s top election official.

That official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, sent Mr. David a tongue-in-cheek letter last month, gently chiding him over a story line on the final season of “Curb” that is critical of the major voting law Georgia passed in 2021. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported on the letter on Tuesday.

In the show, Mr. David faces criminal charges for trying to offer water to a friend’s aunt who is waiting in line to vote — breaking a provision in the real-life voting law that effectively bars third-party groups or anyone else who is not an election worker from providing food and water to voters waiting in line within a 150-foot radius of a polling place.

After multiple episodes’ worth of attention on Mr. David’s trial for breaking the law, Mr. Raffensperger, who has been a vocal proponent of the new law, responded with the type of sarcasm Mr. David often employs.

“We apologize if you didn’t receive celebrity treatment at the local jail,” Mr. Raffensperger wrote, before offering a wry allusion to former President Donald J. Trump’s legal quagmire in the state. “I’m afraid they’ve gotten used to bigger stars.”

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