Judge Denies Effort to Have 200,000 People Restored to Georgia Voter Rolls Before Runoffs

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected an effort to place nearly 200,000 names back on Georgia voter rolls before next month's Senate runoff elections.

"Plaintiffs have shown that Georgia's list maintenance process may not be accurate in identifying voters who have actually moved. But they have not shown, or even alleged, that the process is applied differently to any class of voters," Judge Steve Jones of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia wrote in his ruling.

Still, the judge said there "May be discrepancies" in records used to cancel voter registrations and strongly encouraged the parties to meet and figure out "The explanation, if any, for the alleged inaccuracies."

Before voters were removed, each person was sent a letter instructing them to return an attached postcard if they wanted to stay registered to vote.

Plaintiffs had alleged that the cancellation of registrations was "Based on the baseless claim that these voters had moved." They said the way the cancellations were done violated the National Voter Registration Act.

"There are tens of thousands of Georgia voters who have registered, properly maintained a residence in the same county, and nevertheless have had their registration deleted by the state of Georgia," Andrea Young, executive director of the ACLU of Georgia, said at the time.

"We encourage everyone to check their voter status. Many people on this state's list have every right to assume they are registered to vote. We want you to have time to re-register."

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