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Loeffler & Perdue’s Desperate Voter Suppression Efforts Fail Before Courts

Federal Judges Continue To Reject Desperate, Last-Minute Anti-Voting Lawsuits From Vulnerable Republican Senators & Their Allies

Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue’s attempts to suppress the vote ahead of January’s runoff elections are failing as federal and state judges continue to reject the GOP’s desperate, last-minute lawsuits to make it harder for Georgians to vote. Loeffler and Perdue, along with their Republican allies, are behind an “extraordinary” legal effort seeking to change voting procedures and enact new barriers to the ballot box.

In recent weeks, the courts rejected a lawsuit filed by Senators Loeffler and Perdue along with the NRSC and the Georgia Republican Party that sought to change procedures around absentee ballot processing, a request from Republicans to eliminate absentee ballot drop boxes, and a request from Senators Loeffler and Perdue to segregate newly registered voters’ ballots. On Thursday, a Georgia judge rejected a Republican lawsuit that sought to limit absentee ballot drop box hours. That decision is the latest defeat in the GOP’s aggressive legal efforts to restrict voting access ahead of January’s runoff election. Every single one of these Republican voter suppression efforts have been rejected by federal or state courts in Georgia.

“Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue’s litany of failed voter suppression lawsuits are an all-out assault on our democracy and a desperate attempt to disenfranchise Georgians who are eager to vote them out of office in these runoffs,” said DSCC spokesperson Shea Necheles. “These two corrupt senators know they can’t defend their toxic records of self-dealing and profiteering, so instead they’re trying everything they can to block access to the ballot box. This is a shameful coordinated effort by Senators Loeffler and Perdue to keep more Georgians from going to the polls in record numbers, and the courts were right to reject every one of these anti-voting lawsuits.”

AJC: Loeffler, Perdue join Republican parade of Georgia election lawsuits

  • Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, the Georgia Republican Party and the National Republican Senatorial Committee filed the latest lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Atlanta on Thursday. The lawsuit seeks additional procedures to check the work of election officials who verify the signatures of voters who cast absentee ballots.
  • It’s the third lawsuit Republicans have filed this week to change the rules for handling absentee ballots in Georgia. One seeks to limit the use of ballot drop boxes to normal business hours, while another seeks to eliminate the use of those boxes altogether.
  • Together, the lawsuits constitute an extraordinary effort to change the rules of voting ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff election that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.

AJC: Judges dismiss two GOP lawsuit challenging Georgia’s absentee ballot rules

  • Federal judges Thursday dismissed two Republican lawsuits that sought to change the rules for absentee voting in Georgia amid the hotly contested Jan. 5 runoff election.
  • In the first case, a federal judge in Augusta rejected a Twelfth Congressional District Republican Committee lawsuit that, among other things, sought to eliminate the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in Georgia. In the second, a judge in Atlanta dismissed a request by the state’s two Republican incumbent U.S. senators – Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue – for more scrutiny of signature matching for absentee ballots.
  • The lawsuits are part of an extraordinary effort by Republicans to ask courts to change the rules for absentee ballots amid the runoff election that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. 

AJC: Judge rejects another election lawsuit by Georgia U.S. senators

  • A federal judge Friday rejected a request by Georgia’s two U.S. senators to segregate ballots cast by newly registered voters in the Jan. 5 runoff election.
  • Wood rejected the request. Echoing judges in other recent election lawsuits, she said the plaintiffs had not provided enough evidence of specific harm to have standing to bring the lawsuit. She also worried about changing the rules in the middle of the election.
  • Wood’s decision was the latest defeat of an election lawsuit brought by Georgia Republicans.

AJC: Judge dismisses GOP lawsuit to limit Georgia ballot drop box hours

  • A Fulton County judge dismissed a Republican Party lawsuit Thursday that tried to close absentee ballot drop boxes after normal business hours.
  • The decision is the latest defeat for Republicans who have filed a series of lawsuits in the wake of the presidential election seeking to invalidate its results or change election procedures in the runoffs. None of these lawsuits has been successful in federal or state courts in Georgia.

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