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Judge issues order in Georgia counties’ voter eligibility challenges Albany federal judge issues order in voter eligibility case By WALB News Team | December 31, 2020 at 1:21 PM EST - Updated December 31 at 6:35 PM ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - An Albany federal judge has issued an order about a voter eligibility challenge in two Georgia counties. Judge Leslie Abrams Garnder, a judge of the Albany Federal Court, issued the order in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. The challenges stemmed from Muscogee and Ben Hill counties when people in those counties said thousan...

An argument over postal records.

  Share Source: AP Photo/John Bazemore A conservative effort to ensure people don’t illegally vote hit a snag when a district judge blocked two Georgia counties from purging thousands of voters from local rolls who might have moved out of the county. The basis for the legal challenge from True The Vote is grounded in the United States Postal Service’s National Change of Address registry, which Majority Forward, a liberal voter advocacy group, said was unreliable. Yet, the judge has an interesting tie to Stacey Abrams, a rising star in the Democratic Party for her failed 2018 gubernatori...

Judge seeks deal to limit voter challenges in Georgia runoff POLITICO 12/30/2020 By Josh Gerstein © Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle via AP People wait in line on the first day of advance voting for Georgia's Senate runoff election in Augusta, Ga., on Dec. 14. A federal judge is seeking to craft an agreement that would prohibit voters in two Georgia counties from having their votes in the upcoming Senate runoff election disqualified based solely on postal change-of-address filings. U.S. District Court Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner moved to broker the deal after a two-h...

© 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 the votes was being challenged ahead of next week's runoff elections for the U.S. Senate. Judge Abram...