Two provisions in Georgia’s 2021 election integrity law will be on trial in federal court beginning April 15, as part of a long effort by the left to dismantle election security in the Peach State.
Georgia’s Republican-led legislature passed SB 202 — the Election Integrity Act of 2021 — following the 2020 election. The case was brought by VoteAmerica, the Voter Participation Center, and the Center for Voter Information. VoteAmerica was previously funded by Democracy Builders Fund, whose founder former Obama adviser Seth Andrew was later charged with “stealing funds from his own charter school network in 2021,” according to Influence Watch.
On trial Monday are two provisions of the election law, one which says absentee ballot applications cannot be prefilled with information about the voter and another that says “all persons or entities … that send applications for absentee ballots to electors in a primary, election, or runoff shall mail such applications only to individuals who have not already requested, received, or voted an absentee ballot in the primary, election, or runoff.”
In September, Judge J.P. Boulee granted the state summary judgment on the questions of whether the law was inappropriately broad and whether it violated the plaintiffs’ freedom of association. He denied their request for summary judgment on whether the provision violates plaintiffs’ right to free speech, so the parties will take up that issue in his courtroom on Monday.
Other leftist groups have launched seven other pending lawsuits challenging the election integrity law.
This Isn’t the First
