"Despite Gardner’s relation to Abrams — a figurehead of the Democrat political and related legal campaigns in Georgia — she refuses to recuse herself from the case.
Gardner described calls for her recusal based on a familial conflict of interest as “unsupported, irrational, and highly tenuous.” She dismissed challenges to her impartiality as “mere speculation” and “unsupported by any facts.”
Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, the sister of former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D-GA) and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, changed an order on Wednesday that she issued two days prior regarding the voting eligibility of 4,000 persons in a Georgia county.
On Monday, Gardner blocked challenges to voter eligibility in two Georgia counties — Muscogee County and Ben Hill County — ahead of Georgia’s runoff elections. The counties sought to require registered voters — about 4,000 in Muscogee and 125 in Ben Hill — to cast provisional ballots due to changes of address recorded with the U.S. Postal Service.
Gardner’s revision rescinds her previous order regarding Ben Hill while allowing Muscogee’s local officials to require registered voters with challenged eligibility to submit provisional ballots.
Gardner’s order included criteria for how the eligibility of registered voters casting provisional ballots is to be determined. She sided with Democrat characterizations of U.S. Postal Service data as an unreliable determinant of residency.
Gardner wrote in her order, “The challenge to their eligibility will not be sustained absent specific evidence of ineligibility. Such specific evidence shall not include the appearance of a voter’s name or other information on the NCOA registry.”"
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