A lawsuit in Georgia claims that nearly 200,000 registered voters were improperly purged

[CatWoman]

Voter advocacy groups in Georgia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday asking a federal court to compel the state to restore nearly 200,000 names to its voter registration list ahead of the January runoff races for the state’s two Senate seats that will determine the balance of power in Washington.

In the suit, filed in the northern district of Georgia, three voter advocacy groups said the state had improperly removed 198,000 people from its voter registration lists in 2019 on the grounds that they had changed their addresses.

The suit comes after a pair of hard-fought Senate races in which neither leading candidate received 50 percent of the vote, sending both contests to runoffs that will be held Jan. 5. One race pits the Republican senator David Perdue against the Democrat Jon Ossoff. In the other, Senator Kelly Loeffler, also a Republican, will face a Democratic challenge from the Rev. Raphael Warnock. If Democrats win both races, they will effectively control the Senate.

The office of the Georgia secretary of state, led by Brad Raffensperger, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But during a separate news conference on Wednesday, Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system implementation manager, dismissed the allegations.

“I’m going to go with no,” he said, when asked whether his office had purged nearly 200,000 voters from registration lists. “Frankly, I’ve not seen or heard of this lawsuit yet.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-lawsuit-in-georgia-claims-that-nearly-200-000-registered-voters-were-improperly-purged/ar-BB1bzSWP?ocid=msedgdhp

[questionseverything]

1. Repubs illegally suppressing the vote with false registration purges

K&r

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[djacq]

3. Lie, Cheat, Steal;

The Republican way.

[Indykatie]

4. Don't They Know Who These Voters Were?

Why wait on a court order to reinstate them? I hope Abrams and others are have been working on getting these voters re-registered.

[diva77]

5. GA chapter of ACLU released a report in Sept. based on an investigation by Greg Palast

https://www.gregpalast.com/a-lawsuit-in-georgia-claims-that-nearly-200000-registered-voters-were-improperly-purged/

A Lawsuit in Georgia Claims that Nearly 200,000 Registered Voters were Improperly Purged

by Eileen Sullivan for New York Times December 2, 2020
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The Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union released a report in September based on an investigation by a progressive independent journalist, Greg Palast, who found that of most of the approximately 300,000 people removed had not changed their addresses. Since the investigation was completed, several thousand voters have died or moved, but more than 195,000 remained wrongly affected, the suit says.
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link for the lawsuit:
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/black-voter-s-matter-fund-transformative-justice-coalition-the-rainbow-push-coalition-vs-brad-raffensperger/a4d2be606dbfd46f/full.pdf

[Gothmog]

6. This voter purge needs to be litigated

[Gothmog]

7. Voting rights groups sue Georgia over removal of registered voters

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