A judge in Georgia ruled on Monday that two of the state’s counties cannot invalidate voting records based on unverified change of address data.
“Defendants are being ordered to remove all challenged voters in Ben Hill and Muscogee counties from registration lists based on data from the national change of address,” US district judge Leslie Abrams Gardner wrote in a warrant, Reuters said.
Abrams Gardner is the sister of former Democratic nominee for governor and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams.
The two counties had tried to remove thousands of voters from the lists based on what local election officials called unreliable change of address data. The vast majority of them included 4,000 in Muscogee County, who were chosen by the elected president Joe Biden
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The lawsuit was brought by Democracy Forward, a legal group headed by a Democratic Party attorney, Politico reported.
“We will continue to monitor how other Georgian provinces respond to the repression plan,” said lawyer Marc Elias. “Where necessary, we will sue and we will win.”
The first challenge to voter registration lists was raised by a citizen who told officials in Muscogee that he had access to publicly available voting data to claim that some of the voters on the lists had moved there from Georgia.
More than 2 million people in the state voted ahead of the Jan. 5 election in the Senate, a contest that will determine control of the United States Senate.
Both President Trump
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