Such a shame, too bad, so sad.
A federal judge on Friday found that Georgia election practices challenged by a group associated with Democrat Stacey Abrams do not violate the constitutional rights of voters, ruling in favor of the state on all remaining issues in a lawsuit filed nearly four years ago.
"Although Georgia's election system is not perfect, the challenged practices violate neither the constitution nor the VRA," U.S. District Judge Steve Jones in Atlanta wrote, referring to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He detailed his reasoning in a 288-page order.
The lawsuit was filed in November 2018, just weeks after Abrams narrowly lost the governor's race to Republican Brian Kemp. Throughout that contest, Abrams had accused Kemp, then secretary of state, of using his position as the state's top elections official to promote voter suppression. Kemp vehemently denied the allegations.
Um, okay, I just need to correct one thing here.
Abrams didn't just attempt to deny the legitimacy of the election "throughout that contest." She's done it a whooole lot since then. I mean, she's been so insistent about the illegitimacy of that election that she was still denying it over three years later.
The defeat of her lawsuit this week can thus be seen as yet another blow against her determined effort to cast doubt on the U.S. electoral system.
