Judge tosses some claims in old Georgia election lawsuit
by Kate Brumback, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 1, 2021 3:11 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 1, 2021 at 3:14 pm EDT
ATLANTA A wide-ranging lawsuit filed more than two years ago and challenging the way Georgia’s elections were run has been pared down by a judge who said this week that claims against the state’s “exact match” voter registration requirement can move forward.
When she narrowly lost the governor’s race in November 2018, Democrat Stacey Abrams promised to sue over “the gross mismanagement of this election.” Fair Fight Action, a group she founded, filed that lawsuit a few weeks later, asserting that mismanagement by state officials had violated the constitutional rights of some citizens particularly low-income people and people of colour by depriving them of their right to vote.
Judge tosses some claims in old Georgia election lawsuit
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