A Georgia federal judge dismissed on Tuesday a challenge to provisions of a controversial GOP-sponsored election law that went into effect soon after the 2020 election, where President Donald Trump lost the state but disputed otherwise.
U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee rejected election integrity activists’ request to prohibit enforcement of certain provisions of Senate Bill 202 that are criminal in nature.
Pushed by Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp, the bill’s sweeping overhaul of the state’s election laws went into effect July 1, 2021. Many of the changes, which included permitting unlimited challenges to voter eligibility, shortening runoffs from nine weeks to four weeks, restricting the use of 24/7 drop boxes, and prohibiting people from passing out food and water to voters waiting in line, have been challenged in court proceedings since.