Judge Orders Georgia Counties To Halt Voter Purge Ahead Of Senate Runoffs
Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, sister of Democratic activist Stacey Abrams, has declined to recuse herself from the case. Reuters
| Updated December 29, 2020
A federal judge on Monday ordered two Georgia counties to reverse a decision removing thousands of voters from the rolls ahead of Jan. 5 runoff elections that will determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate.
The counties seemed to have improperly relied on unverified change-of-address data to invalidate registrations, the judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner, said in her order filed late on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia.
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the members of his White House Office of Digital Strategy, where Kashmir-born Aisha Shah has bagged a senior position.
Shah has been named as Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy, which would be headed by Rob Flaherty, Director of Digital Strategy, according to an announcement by the Biden transition team.
Raised in Louisiana, Shah previously served as digital partnerships manager in the Biden-Harris Campaign. She currently serves as an advancement specialist for the Smithsonian Institution.
Prior to this role, Shah worked as an assistant manager on the Corporate Fund of the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, supporting the first-ever expansion of a presidential memorial.
Kashmir-born girl Aisha Shah bags senior position in Joe Bidenâs White House Digital Team
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced the members of his White House Office of Digital Strategy, where Kashmir-born Aisha Shah has bagged a senior position.
Shah has been named as Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy, which would be headed by Rob Flaherty, Director of Digital Strategy, according to an announcement by the Biden transition team.
Raised in Louisiana, Shah previously served as digital partnerships manager in the Biden-Harris Campaign. She currently serves as an advancement specialist for the Smithsonian Institution.
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That s markedly high turnout for a runoff election, which usually sees much lower participation than a general election.
More than 79,000 people who did not vote in this November s general election have cast a ballot in the runoffs.
The runoffs already set an early voting record when 168,000 Georgians went to the polls the day they opened and another 314,000 cast absentee ballots that day. More than 1.1 million people voted either in person or by mail during the first week after early voting opened.
If Warnock and Ossoff win both races, then each party would hold 50 seats in the Senate, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris