Federal Judge, Sister Of Stacey Abrams, Blocks GA Counties From Purging Voter Rolls Of People Who Changed Postal Addresses

A federal judge in Georgia has blocked two counties from removing roughly 4,000 names from their voter rolls ahead of runoff elections to determine control of the U.S. Senate in January.

District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, sister to former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, issued a restraining order against Muscogee and Ben Hill counties on Monday over calls for her recusal from the case. The Obama-appointed judge ruled that the counties had improperly scrubbed names from their lists of registered voters over unverified change-of-address data, according to Politico.