ATLANTA – A federal choose dominated that Honest Combat Motion should repay the fee to Georgia taxpayers for defending the lawsuit.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is happy to announce the restoration of the prices related to defending the State within the lawsuit of Honest Combat Motion Inc. v. Raffensperger.
“This can be a win for taxpayers and voters who knew all alongside that Stacey Abrams’ voter suppression claims have been false. It has by no means been simpler to vote and more durable to cheat within the state of Georgia,” stated Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. “This can be a begin, however I believe Stacey Abrams ought to pay again the tens of millions of taxpayer {dollars} the state was pressured to spend to disprove her false claims.”
U.S. District Court docket Decide Steven Jones dominated towards all of the claims introduced by Honest Combat Motion, which had challenged Georgia’s absentee poll provisions, oversight of voter rolls and the state’s voter verification guidelines on September thirtieth of final 12 months. In an order that ran tons of of pages denying each single declare made by Honest Combat Motion, Decide Jones wrote “Though Georgia’s election system just isn’t good, the challenged practices violate neither the structure nor the Voting Rights Act,” discovering that the “burden on voters is comparatively low,” and that Honest Combat Motion had not supplied any “…proof of a voter who was unable to vote, skilled longer wait occasions, was confused about voter registration standing.”
“Georgia’s election legal guidelines strike an applicable stability between election safety and voter comfort,” stated Raffensperger. “We noticed document voter turnout in 2022, extraordinarily excessive voter turnout for a midterm election, at ranges that show claims of voter suppression are simply as trumped up as claims of stolen elections.”
