Fair Fight files suit against organization challenging voter eligibility
On Wednesday, the voting rights organization started by Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight, filed a lawsuit against an organization named True the Vote that has been mass challenging voters' eligibility in at least half of Georgia's 159 counties.
According to the lawsuit, True the Vote "is responsible for coordinating efforts to challenge over 364,000 Georgians’ eligibility to vote and recruiting Georgians to engage in its 'ballot security' operation in Georgia in advance of the state’s January Senate Runoff."
The 30-page federal lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Gainesville Division, is asking the Court to:
--Declare the defendants violated the Voting Rights Act
--Enjoin the defendants and those working with them from submitting voter challenges in Georgia, contacting voters to try to confirm their eligibility, participate in poll-watching/election observing activities and training, and photographing and video recording voters or election workers at the polls
--Force defendants to withdraw pending voter challenges
--Order organization to cease operations in Georgia
While several counties have already rejected the organization's mass challenges, at least two -- Muscogee and Forsyth -- have found "probable cause to move forward" with them, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
These challenged voters will now have to cast a provisional or challenged ballot, which will not be counted unless county election officials can verify they are registered and eligible voters.
-ABC News' Quinn Scanlan