A federal judge on Friday blocked an effort to restore 98,000 Georgia voters to the rolls who had been removed earlier this month after being classified as “inactive.”
Judge Steve C. Jones denied a motion filed by the voting rights group Fair Fight Action, who had claimed that Georgia’s voter-list maintenance process violated voters’ rights to procedural due process under the US Constitution, court documents show.
According to the documents, Fair Fight Action — founded by Democratic former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams — had sued in an attempt to restore some 120,000 voters who had been removed after having had no contact with their county election officials since January 1, 2012, and had not responded to two notices. Of those, 22,000 were subsequently returned to the rolls by the secretary of state, according to the documents.
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Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/politics/georgia-voters-inactive-judge/index.html