A Georgia judge ruled Monday that two of the state’s counties cannot invalidate the voting record based on unverified change of address data.
“Defendants are required to remove from the registration lists all challenged voters in Ben Hill and Muscogee counties based on national change of address data,” wrote U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner in an order, according to Reuters.
Abrams Gardner is the sister of former Democratic candidate for governor and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams.
The two counties had tried to purge thousands of voters from the lists based on what local election officials called unreliable change of direction data. The vast majority of them included 4,000 in Muscogee County, President-elect Joe Biden
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The lawsuit was filed by Democracy Forward, a legal group led by a Democratic Party lawyer, Politico reported.
“We continue to monitor how other counties in Georgia respond to the suppression scheme,” attorney Marc Elias said. “When necessary, we will sue and win.”
The initial challenge of voter registration lists was presented by a citizen who told Muscogee officials that he had accessed publicly available voting data to allege that some voters on the lists had moved out of Georgia.
More than 2 million people in the state have already voted ahead of the Jan. 5 election in the Senate, a contest that will determine control of the U.S. Senate.
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