Three Georgia voters—including the widow of former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Weltner—filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Georgia secretary of state’s cancellation of an election for sitting Justice Keith Blackwell’s seat. 

Anne Glenn Weltner joined with Statesboro civil rights attorney and former Georgia NAACP president Francys Johnson Jr. and Laura Register, a former member of the Grady County Board of Education, to sue Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger over claims he violated state law, and a civil rights statute barring voter disenfranchisement.

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