More than 4,000 people in two Georgia counties were mistakenly removed from voter lists before the second round of Senate elections next week, a federal judge ruled. In her decision, Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner said that counties used unverified change of address data to invalidate records – and that all those who were removed from voter lists should be reinstated. The vast majority of these records came from Muscogee County, which, according to the Politico, leaned heavily on President-elect Joe Biden in November. A few hundred came from Ben Hill County, which President Trump carried last month. Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias hailed the judge’s decision as a “blow to Republican Party electoral repression”. Judge Gardner is the sister of Democrat Stacey Abrams, whose voter registration efforts in Georgia were widely credited with winning the state for Biden.
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