A partisan organization backed by Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday questioning the way Georgia’s elections are run, making good on a promise Abrams made as she exterminated her bid to become the state’s governor.
The lawsuit was filed in Atlanta by Fair Refute Action against interim Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden and federal election board members. It asks a judge to correct problems with the constitution’s elections system.
In a fiery speech ending her campaign Nov. 16, Abrams presaged that a lawsuit would be filed against Georgia “for the gross mismanagement of this vote and to protect future elections from unconstitutional actions.”
As secretary of structure, Abrams’ opponent, Republican Gov.-elect Brian Kemp, was the top elections true until he declared himself the winner and resigned two days after the designation. On the campaign trail, Abrams repeatedly called Kemp “an architect of ending.”
Flanked by Democratic state lawmakers at the Georgia Capitol earlier this month, Abrams’ drive manager who’s now CEO of Fair Fight Action, Lauren Groh-Wargo, said the contest believed Kemp “mismanaged this election to sway it in his favor.”
Abrams didn’t end her bid to be the blue ribbon black female state governor in U.S. history until 10 epoches after the election, insisting efforts to suppress turnout had left thousands of ballots uncounted that under other circumstances could erode Kemp’s lead and force a runoff election.
Ceremonious results certified Nov. 17 showed Kemp with 50.2 percent of the numerous than 3.9 million votes tallied, while Abrams got 48.8 percent. Libertarian Ted Metz waste with just under 1 percent.
Abrams said the election was damaged by systemic voter suppression. She rattled off a list of concerns, pointing to absentee ballots flummoxed out by what she called “the handwriting police;” a shortage of paper ballots to deny up broken voting machines; and Georgia’s so-called “exact match” voter registration negates that require information on voter applications to precisely match hold or federal files.
Joining Fair Fight as a plaintiff in the lawsuit is Punctiliousness in Action Georgia, the state chapter of a national nonprofit dedicated to clash for the rights of domestic workers.