Georgia’s secretary of state has settled a federal voter rights suit with an agreement to stop automatically canceling voter registration applications that do not match state driver’s license and Social Security records.
The practice had led to the cancellation of tens of thousands of voter registration applications, said Francys Johnson, a Statesboro lawyer and president of the Georgia NAACP, which was a plaintiff in the five-month-old case.
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