Lawsuit Against True the Vote Goes to Judge to Decide

Closing arguments in a lawsuit against True The Vote highlighted conflict in federal law protecting voters and a state law allowing voter challenges.

True the Vote founder and President Catherine Engelbrecht describes how organized ballot trafficking appears to be behind the 2020 election in Arizona, during an informational meeting with state lawmakers in Phoenix on May 31, 2022. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

GAINESVILLE, Ga.—One side sees it as voter suppression. The other side sees it as election integrity. One cites the civil rights protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The other cites the Georgia law allowing and encouraging citizen challenges to the voter rolls.

The controversial 2020 presidential election and equally fraught Georgia Senate runoffs that followed are almost three years in the rearview mirror. But still at issue are the challenges to voter rolls that the True the Vote nonprofit group raised in the last few weeks before the runoffs on Jan. 5, 2021.