Georgia State Conference of the NAACP v. State of Georgia
In 2017, Advancing Justice-Atlanta joined several other civil rights organizations to challenge a Georgia statute that required Georgians to register to vote three months in advance of a federal runoff election in order to cast a ballot, in violation of the National Voter Registration Act.
As a result of this litigation, a federal judge extended the voter registration deadline for the June 2017 runoff election between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District, enabling 8,000 additional voters to participate in this historic election.
Filed
April 25, 2017
Status
Decided
Issues
Voting Rights, Federal Runoff, National Voter Registration Act