Posted on 12/30/2020 3:24:57 AM PST by gattaca
Thousands of voters were set to be removed from rolls
A federal judge has ordered two counties in Georgia to reverse course on removing thousands of individuals from voter rolls ahead of the state's Jan. 5 Senate runoffs.
POLL: Will you be spending Christmas with your family or social distancing? The judge, Leslie Abrams Gardner — who is the sister of former Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams, a prominent ally of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden — issued the ruling Monday, concluding the counties relied on unverified change-of-address data to proceed with the action.
"Defendants are enjoined from removing any challenged voters in Ben Hill and Muscogee Counties from the registration lists on the basis of National Change of Address data," Gardner wrote in the order.
Politico reported that the majority of the registrations officials were seeking to rescind, about 4,000, came from Muscogee County, where Biden claimed an easy victory, while an additional 150 registrations were from Ben Hill County, where President Trump won by a sizable margin.
The number of registrations could prove significant in the hotly contested state where, in November, Biden defeated Trump by just under 12,000 votes and Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler were unable to accrue the majority needed for victory and avoid runoff elections.
The elections boards in each of the counties had approved motions filed by local voters claiming the registrations should be removed based on data from the United States Postal Service's National Change of Address database that allegedly showed the individuals had moved out of the county.
In her Monday order, Gardner ruled that the evidence in each case was not conclusive enough to support their removal and noted that the removals may have violated federal law because the voters were not given proper notice as is required within 90 days of a federal election.
Earlier on Monday, the Muscogee County elections board filed a motion requesting Gardner's recusal from the case given her connection to Abrams, but the request was denied.
Abrams, after losing her run for governor in 2018, has become a vocal proponent of increasing voter registration in the state. Earlier this month, the Georgia secretary of state's office announced it had launched an investigation into the New Georgia Project, a third-party registration group founded by Abrams, for "repeatedly and aggressively" seeking to register "ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters" ahead of the runoff elections.
In the motion, lawyers for the board described Abrams as "a Georgia politician and voting rights activist who was the Democratic candidate in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election and has since engaged in various highly publicized efforts to increase voter registration and turnout for the 2020 general election in Georgia."
This week, during an interview on CNN, Abrams charged that "Republicans do not know how to win without voter suppression as one of their tools."
It’s insane that this judge hasn’t been forced to recuse herself. Whatever horrible things happen in GA for any elections, it’s the fault of feeble, feckless GOPs for not raising Cain over this sh!t.
Perdue and Senate Barbie just sashay around God’s green earth thinking everything will fall their way simply because of their overall wonderfulness. Makes me puke. They don’t care whether they win or not or they’d have their attorneys on this like white on rice.
Not sure if this is in the RNC vocabulary, but I’ll mention it anyway: APPEAL.
What the Hell happened to Georgia? How has a traditionally southern state gone so hard left in a matter of just a few years?
More proof of a lack of ethics and an abundance of underhandedness in the cheating Democrat party. They absolutely have no scruples.
Here is the actual judicial canon violated by Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner:
Canon 3: A Judge Should Perform the Duties of the Office Fairly, Impartially and Diligently
(C) Disqualification.
(1) A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including but not limited to instances in which:
(d) the judge or the judge’s spouse, or a person related to either within the third degree of relationship, or the spouse of such a person is:
(i) a party to the proceeding, or an officer, director, or trustee of a party;
(ii) acting as a lawyer in the proceeding;
(iii) known by the judge to have an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the proceeding; or
3) For the purposes of this section:
(a) the degree of relationship is calculated according to the civil law system; the following relatives are within the third degree of relationship: parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, great grandparent, great grandchild, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, niece, and nephew; the listed relatives include whole and half blood relatives and most step relatives;
When the entirety of the deep state is aligned against Trump, they are spitting in the eye of the 80m+ (yes, Trump got that many) voters who are for him, it’s difficult, if not impossible to overcome.
I don’t know what the answer is.
One thing for sure. This runoff in Georgia is fixed with the democraps knowing their cheating has been condoned.
Georgia has not gone far left. It’s a red state. All this is being orchestrated and run by the far left with the feckless republicans going along with it.
Seems Georgia has a family of scumbags trying to govern the State.
County Republican officials should just ignore her order just like the democRat officials ignored judges orders.
This week, during an interview on CNN, Abrams charged that “Republicans ( humans) do not know ....
Planet of the apes meme
Shrug their shoulders and utter "not ripe", then "latches."
This lady judge has an unusual background. She married an ex-con whose conviction was overturned, along with hundreds of others, because of problems with a forensic tech’s systematic falsification of evidence. My guess is a good number of these suspects were guilty, but they got off because this tech gilded the lily, and was found out.
https://wchstv.com/news/local/judge-dismisses-kanawha-county-commission-prosecuting-attorney-from-federal-gardner-suit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Zain
The US Senate confirmed Obama’s appointment of Leslie Abrams Gardner as US District Court Judge by a vote of 100-0 in 2014.
Not a good day at the office for Mitch McConnell.
Post 6: Thanks for the reference material. :)
Even had they known St. Stacy the Gaptooth would be in the position she is now, they’d have approved her.
“How has a traditionally southern state gone so hard left in a matter of just a few years?”
Ever seen what they teach in government schools?
These states could NOT go hard left without the public school influence.
Most people I know who would normally be thought of as traditional or conservative union Democrats have voted straight-ticket Republican for some time. It is people who attended government schools in the past 20 years who have no problem with socialism.
I harp on this a lot: we have to look in the mirror. There is a massive need for basic conservative leadership at the family level, to choose to not allow our chilsren set foot in the Bernie academies.
Ever.
This will insult some, but putting one’s children in public schools, in spite of all the evidence of harm to children, is the mark of a fool.
Get Stacey’s n/p phone records.....any calls to her sister to facilitate this violates her n/p’s tax status.
Now if we could only get someone to prosecute her......cackle.
You raise an interesting point that I have wondered about. Since November 3, 2020 much of the election fraud has been focused on crooked voting machines, algorithms, bogus ballots, illegal votes, etc. benefiting Biden.
There have been far fewer stories about the number of valid Trump ballots that were deliberately thrown out, mutilated, spoiled or otherwise destroyed to boost Biden’s numbers. I recall reports from Arizona, Nevada and Oklahoma, but these stories were not as widely covered.
Why Georgia, though? It's at the heart of the south, but there are far more influential states such as Florida.
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