Jan. 9, 2024 - Epoch Times
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| Three years ago today, right in the aftermath of the most secure election in world history, you might remember that another election was held. | |
| This was a special Senate election in the state of Georgia wherein both of their two Senate seats were up for grabs. | |
| It was basically a runoff election because no candidate had gotten 50% of the vote. | |
| And so, while the presidential election took place on November 3rd of 2020, the special Georgia runoff election took place on January 5th of 2021. | |
| And in that two-month interim period between the two elections, an organization called True the Vote was working to clean up the voter rolls over in the state of Georgia. | |
| Specifically, during this window of time, quote, Its founder Katherine Engelbrecht and several others had raised questions about whether 364,000 Georgia voters were improperly registered because their voter registrations conflicted with their mailing addresses. | |
| Essentially, what this organization did was that they compared the mailing data that they had on hand with the data that was on the official voter rolls in the state. | |
| And they found discrepancies in the form of people allegedly not living in the state and the county where they were registered to vote. | |
| And so what this organization did was that they helped people at the local level file election challenges. | |
| Quote, Georgia law requires that voter challenges be made by other voters living in the same county. | |
| As two Georgia runoff elections, which were believed could determine control of the U.S. Senate, approached on January 5th of 2021, True the Vote narrowed its challenge list to about 39,000, eliminating those with a legitimate reason to live elsewhere, such as college students and active duty military. | |
| They then found volunteers to make challenges in about 40 of Meaning that because there was not enough time before the actual election, they narrowed down their list to just 39,000 names, people whose addresses they believed were different from what was on the voter roll books. | |
| They then not only helped the people at the local level file the actual challenges, but also, quote, True the Vote offered bounties from a $1 million reward fund for evidence of election malfeasance and sought to recruit citizen monitors to patrol polls and ballot drop-off locations. | |
| Essentially, they were recruiting people to monitor ballot drop boxes as well as paying people bounties if they were able to provide evidence of election wrongdoing. | |
| Now, as a practical matter, their efforts in this particular election did not really bear much fruit. | |
| The voter roll challenges did not really go anywhere, and in the end, the two Democrat candidates, John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, they wound up winning the Senate runoff elections. | |
| However, this is where the story, you can say, took on a bit of a twist. | |
| That's because this right here is Ms. | |
| Stacey Abrams. | |
| She is a Democrat who ran multiple unsuccessful campaigns for Georgia governor. | |
| And this is Fair Fight Incorporated, an organization that Ms. | |
| Stacey Abrams founded. | |
| And what happened after the runoff election is that Fair Fight Incorporated filed a lawsuit against True the Vote on behalf of several residents of Georgia. | |
| Their claim was that by questioning the voter rolls and by helping local Georgians to question the authenticity of the voter rolls, True the Vote was engaging in an act of voter suppression. | |
| According to their lawsuit, Fair Fight made the argument that, quote, Essentially, at the heart of the argument is that the Stacey Abrams-founded organization was making the claim that by questioning the validity of the voter rolls, True the Vote was actually in violation of the Voting Rights Act. | |
| And just for reference, the specific part of that law that they claim was being violated was Section 11, Subsection 2, which reads this, No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person for voting or attempting to vote. | |
| And so you see, on the one hand, the argument was that the social media posts, articles, and podcast appearances by True the Vote urging people to challenge the voter rolls constituted a form of voter suppression. | |
| On the other hand, though, True the Vote's legal team was making the counterargument that their actions, including their search for illegal votes, was fully protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | |
| And so these were the two competing arguments in the case, which plotted along in the legal system for about three years before finally getting to trial. | |
| Eventually, the case did make it to trial, and after hearing both sides and considering the merits of the case, the judge ruled in favor of True the Vote. | |
| Specifically, in a fairly thick 145-page ruling, Judge Stephen Jones, who was appointed to the bench by Barack Obama, he ruled that this effort to challenge the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of Georgia voters did not violate the Voting Rights Act. | |
| Here's part of what he wrote. | |
| Basically, what the judge determined here was that, for one, when True the Vote was using these social media posts, these articles and these podcasts to urge people to challenge the voter rolls, they were not trying to intimidate the voters themselves, since it's even dubious whether those voters themselves would have even known about the existence of these articles and these podcasts. | |
| And then secondly, the judge found that these calls to action were protected speech under the First Amendment. | |
| Now, as you would imagine, the defendants in the case were thrilled with the ruling, with Ms. | |
| Catherine Engelbrecht, who is the founder of True the Vote, releasing this video as a response. | |
| And just for your reference, I'm going to speed up the video just a little bit so we can get through it faster. | |
| Hey everybody, it's Katherine Engelbrecht with True the Vote bringing you a great bit of breaking news. | |
| We've just learned from the Northern District Court of Georgia that the judge has rendered a decision in the case Fair Fight v. | |
| True the Vote. | |
| And that decision is that we have been fully vindicated. | |
| Today is a great day for America. | |
| Today is a great day for trustworthy elections. | |
| You see, we were sued by Fair Fight back in December of 2020 when we endeavored to help Georgia citizens file lawful elector challenges, basically asking their counties to take a look at the voter records because it would seem, based on data that we could provide to them, it would seem that many of those voters, in fact some 364,000 according to our data, had moved from either the county or state where that voter was registered. | |
| And so, in so doing, we drew a lawsuit from Fair Fight, and we have been battling it out for three years. | |
| Today, I am thrilled to tell you that the court has decided in our favor, in full, we've beaten Stacey Abrams, Fair Fight, Mark Elias, and his law firm, and his gaggle of attorneys, and the Department of Justice. | |
| Thank you to all of you who stood so steadfastly by us through these tumultuous times, and there were some... | |
| Difficult moments along this journey, many, many changes, but we have continued to stand strong knowing that it is right. | |
| It is not only right, it is necessary for citizens to stand for lawful elections, for trustworthy elections. | |
| And today is a great example of why we should continue. | |
| Justice has been served. | |
| Thank you all. | |
| God bless each and every one of you. | |
| God bless America. | |
| On the flip side, however, you have Fair Fight Incorporated, the Stacey Abrams organization, releasing a lengthy statement of their own saying that the federal courts have failed to protect voting rights. | |
| Here's part of what they wrote in their statement. | |
| While there is much to make of the court's 145-page opinion, Fair Fight is disappointed that Georgians and voters nationwide must continue to wait for our federal courts to impose accountability in the face of widespread and mounting voter intimidation efforts. | |
| Now, it's unclear as of today whether they will be appealing this decision, meaning that as a practical matter heading into the 2024 election, the question of whether or not Americans can challenge a state's voter rolls. | |
| Well, it's been adjudicated in the affirmative that broadly looking for illegal voters does not constitute a form of voter suppression. | |
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