Groups trying to block voter challenges in Georgia have announced they will appeal a trial court’s ruling that such challenges do not violate federal voting rights law.
Fair Fight Action filed a notice Friday asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the lower court’s ruling. Democratic attorney Marc Elias said his office will handle the appeal without filing charges against Fair Fight.
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones ruled last month that the Texas-based nonprofit True the Vote had filed a lawsuit against more than 360,000 Georgia voters just before the 2021 runoff elections for key U.S. Senate seats. The court ruled that he did not violate the Voting Rights Act when he announced he was contesting his eligibility.
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Fair Fight, a voting rights group founded by former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, accused True It was suing Vought and several individuals.
Georgia-based Fair Fight Action plans to appeal the decision, arguing that voter challenges do not violate federal law. (Fox News)
Jones ruled that True the Vote did not intimidate or attempt to intimidate specific voters, but expressed concerns about the group’s methods. Jones wrote that the challenged voter list “completely lacks credibility” and “border on recklessness.”
In the weeks following the November 2020 general election, then-President Donald Trump and his allies promoted false claims of widespread voter fraud that cost the election. In Georgia, two Senate races that will ultimately determine control of the Senate are heading for runoff elections in early January.
True the Vote announced the voter challenge, stating that the voter no longer lives in the precinct in which he is registered and is considered ineligible to vote there.
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Georgia election officials rejected just a few dozen ballots cast in the runoff elections, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock defeated Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler by tens of thousands of votes, securing their party’s control of the Senate.
