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POLITICO Print Continue to article content Voters return to their vehicles after early voting for the Senate runoff election at Ron Anderson Recreation Center in Powder Springs, Ga. | AP Photo/Todd Kirkland The judge, the sister of Stacey Abrams, drew fierce attacks from Trump allies for declining to recuse. Updated A federal judge has agreed to allow a Georgia county to require that certain voters cast provisional ballots, just days before two runoff elections in the state that will decide co...

© press Stacey Abrams federal judge sister has blocked GA counties from purging voter rolls of people who changed postal addresses A federal judge, who is the sister of Democratic Party operative Stacey Abrams, has issued an order blocking local election officials in Georgia from purging inaccurate information from the voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner ordered officials to allow voting by more than 4,000 people whose records show incorrect addresses. The eligibility of th...

By Dominick Mastrangelo - 12/29/20 07:38 AM EST   A judge in Georgia ruled on Monday that two of the states counties cannot invalidate voting registrations based on unverified change of address data. “Defendants are enjoined from removing any challenged voters in Ben Hill and Muscogee Counties from the registration lists on the basis of National Change of Address data,” U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner wrote in an order, according to Reuters. Abrams Gardner is the sister of...

Raffensperger takes issue with Albany judge’s ruling Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger took issue with the order. By Dave Miller | December 29, 2020 at 1:30 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 1:30 PM ATLANTA (WALB) - Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Tuesday issued a release criticizing one of Albany’s federal court judges. “An Obama-appointed federal judge issued a ruling yesterday that undermined rule of law in Georgia,” Raffensperger said. â€...