Justice Department instructed to dismiss legal challenge to Georgia election law
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping election overhaul that Georgia Republican lawmakers passed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state.
The lawsuit, filed in June 2021 under former President Joe Байдън, твърди, че законът на Джорджия е имал за цел да откаже на черните гласоподаватели на еднакъв достъп до бюлетината. Bondi said the Biden administration was pushing “false claims of suppression. ”
“Georgians deserve secure elections, not fabricated claims of false voter suppression meant to divide us, ” she said.
The law was part of a trend of Republican-backed measures that tightened rules around voting, passed in the months after Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden. Известен като SB 202, законът добави условие за идентификация на гласоподавателя за пощенски бюлетини, редуцира интервала за поискване от поща с поща и докара до по -малко кутии за капки...
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