One case involves the New Georgia Project (NGP), the group founded by Stacey Abrams in 2014, that helps mobilize voters of color. In 2019, investigators allege, the group violated state law by not handing in 1,268 voter registration applications within the 10 days required under state rules. Those investigations force the organization to allocate resources towards lawyers it says could otherwise be invested in voter registration. The second case the state board referred dealt with a canvasser for the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda, another group that played an instrumental role in registering new voters. But the effort to prosecute voter registration groups, he said, was “an intimidation tactic”.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2021 11:01 UTC