Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue’s attempts to suppress the vote ahead of January’s runoff elections are failing as federal and state judges continue to reject the GOP’s desperate, last-minute lawsuits to make it harder for Georgians to vote. Loeffler and Perdue, along with their Republican allies, are behind an “extraordinary” legal effort seeking to change voting procedures and enact new barriers to the ballot box.
In recent weeks, the courts rejected a lawsuit filed by Senators Loeffler and Perdue along with the NRSC and the Georgia Republican Party that sought to change procedures around absentee ballot processing, a request from Republicans to eliminate absentee ballot drop boxes, and a request from Senators Loeffler and Perdue to segregate newly registered voters’ ballots. On Thursday, a Georgia judge rejected a Republican lawsuit that sought to limit absentee ballot drop box hours. That decision is the latest defeat in the GOP’s aggressive legal efforts to restrict voting access ahead of January’s runoff election. Every single one of these Republican voter suppression efforts have been rejected by federal or state courts in Georgia.
“Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue’s litany of failed voter suppression lawsuits are an all-out assault on our democracy and a desperate attempt to disenfranchise Georgians who are eager to vote them out of office in these runoffs,” said DSCC spokesperson Shea Necheles. “These two corrupt senators know they can’t defend their toxic records of self-dealing and profiteering, so instead they’re trying everything they can to block access to the ballot box. This is a shameful coordinated effort by Senators Loeffler and Perdue to keep more Georgians from going to the polls in record numbers, and the courts were right to reject every one of these anti-voting lawsuits.”
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