U.S. voting rights trampled in Georgia governor's race: lawsuit

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Advocates for Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday alleging far-reaching U.S. voting rights violations during the Georgia governor’s contest she lost this month to a Republican who ran the election as secretary of state.

Abrams, who sought to become the nation’s first female African-American governor, pledged to fight for electoral changes after a protracted vote count saw Brian Kemp win the race by little more than 1 percent of nearly 4 million votes cast.

Kemp resigned as secretary of state after the Nov. 6 election.

The lawsuit filed by Fair Fight Action, a voting advocacy group headed by Abrams’ campaign manager, said state election officials “grossly mismanaged an election that deprived Georgia citizens, and particularly citizens of color, of their fundamental right to vote.”

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POLITICS NOVEMBER 27, 2018 / 3:25 PM / UPDATED 15 MINUTES AGO
Letitia Stein
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-georgia/u-s-voting-rights-trampled-in-georgia-governors-race-lawsuit-idUSKCN1NW2B8

[Gothmog]

1. Here is a link to the pleadings

From what I have read, this is well done lawsuit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cz1etDP8yKDyo05r1SeQPT9UD_-B6Mmt/view

[diva77]

7. Thanks for posting this - I have been searching for it!!

[Gothmog]

9. Prof. Hasen's election law blog is a good source for things like this

I volunteer a great deal of time on voter protection issues and I love Hasen's election law blog

[diva77]

10. good to know! thanks

[sandensea]

2. Civil rights advocates had long been warning Jim Crow would one day be brought back

It's been a veritable obession for Deep South right-wingers.

[Gothmog]

3. "Stacey Abrams' New Lawsuit Against Georgia's Broken Voting System Is Incredibly Smart"

From Prof Hasen https://electionlawblog.org/?p=102500

I have written this piece for Slate. It begins:

Defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and her allies are taking on Georgia’s shoddy election system in the right way: through a big and bold lawsuit. At the very least, the lawsuit will shine the light of day on how Georgia makes it much harder than many other states to register and successfully cast a ballot. If the lawsuit achieves its more ambitious aims, a court could put Georgia’s voting system back under federal supervision for up to 10 years.

Rather than how a typical voting lawsuit works with a singular focus on a problematic aspect of Georgia’s electoral process—like overexuberant voter purges or its shoddy voting machinery—the lawsuit makes an argument that the cumulative effect of Georgia’s system is to deny voters, especially voters of color, the opportunity to easily cast a ballot which will be fairly and accurately counted.

[BlueInRedHell]

4. Stacey Abrams is such a treasure. We need more brilliant women like her and fewer nasty, r/o

willfully ignorant men like Trump.

[lilactime]

5. K&R

[cstanleytech]

6. I hope it leads to criminal charges against Kemp. nt

[diva77]

8. I hope it will also lead to action regarding FL elections which had numerous election integrity

problems

[Honeycombe8]

11. Great news. This is what I thought should happen.

It's very expensive. I wonder who is paying. But if they have the money, it must be done, since the law was broken, and the basic right to vote was taken away from no telling how many citizens.

This can't go unpunished.

[MyOwnPeace]

13. Isn't it a shame

that somebody has to pay to have fairness restored to a democratic system!

If it goes anywhere I'd be most willing to provide a donation, for sure!

[Honeycombe8]

14. It would be a drop in the bucket, but I could contribute something, too.

But this sort of thing costs a LOT of money. I wonder who is funding it? I hope not Abrams personally, from her campaign funds. I would HOPE that the Democratic Party can fund most of it.

[MFGsunny]

12. K & R