There have been few weeks more pivotal in election integrity than what our country
experienced last week. Now, as we face a wave of progressive interests aimed at silencing citizens' voices and removing our ability to petition the government, this update takes on a level of importance that cannot be overstated.
For weeks, the True the Vote team was on the ground in Georgia working hard to provide training, election integrity hotline support, and most significantly, assisting Georgia voters across the state in the filing of over 364,000 Elector Challenges to individuals who did not appear to meet residency requirements.
The election came and went –but the fight did not end there.
In fact, our efforts to defend citizens' rights continue, because what started in Georgia is now part of a lawsuit that asks a very important question for every voter in America – do we have rights? And should those rights be protected from intimidation?
On Christmas Eve, Stacey Abrams's group, Fair Fight Action, sued True the Vote and Georgia voters across the state who petitioned their counties in the interest of protecting the right to vote. They sought to restrain us in the filing of citizen challenges and prevent us from future work in the state.
Today, True the Vote filed a countersuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, asking
the court to stop Fair Fight Action from continuing its effort to intimidate Georgia voters who lawfully submitted elector challenges in their counties prior to the January 5th election.
Fair Fight Action’s suit took direct aim at our constitutional rights. If their suit had succeeded, it would have violated the principle of a citizen's right to petition the government and the right to freedom of speech.
Fair Fight Action attacked True the Vote and these courageous citizens, not for breaking the law, but for following it! Georgia law explicitly allows for challenges to voter eligibility if evidence suggests challenged voters no longer live at the address where they are registered.
We cannot and will not let this assault on voters' rights go unanswered.
Today’s countersuit not only asks the court to safeguard Georgia citizens’ rights and True the Vote from Fair Fight Action’s strong-arm tactics, but it establishes our stand against the progressive onslaught to silence the American people. We will not stand by and watch while our rights are taken. For over a decade, True the Vote has worked to preserve voters’ rights and election integrity. We’re not stopping now.
The attacks on the rights of citizens and states will not stop. We won’t either; stand with us.
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