Raffensperger Secures Another Victory in the Eleventh Circuit in Challenge to Georgia's Election Integrity Act

Atlanta - Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger secured another victory after the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Eleventh Circuit tossed out a challenge to provisions of SB 202, Georgia's Election Integrity Act. 

The case focused on provisions that allow state officials to suspend underperforming county boards of election and on challenges to rules governing ballot tabulation. The unanimous panel agreed with the trial judge that the plaintiffs failed to provide any evidence of potential injury to themselves or that they sued the correct parties, denying them the ability to bring the case to federal court. 

Secretary Raffensperger previously prevailed on a challenge to SB 202's provision prohibiting individuals and organizations from giving money, gifts, food, or drink to voters within restricted distances around polling places and voting lines. Georgia enacted these provisions to prevent attempts to direct or influence voters during the voting process. 

"Thanks to the Georgia Election Integrity Act, our state remains the best, most secure state for voting. This ruling is another win in our battle to protect the integrity of our elections,” said Raffensperger. “Rest assured, we will stand firm no matter what group tries to interfere.”

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Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 17 days of early voting (which has been called the “gold standard”), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, and 2022. 2022 achieved the largest single day of in-person early voting turnout in Georgia midterm history utilizing Georgia’s secure, paper ballot voting system. Most recently, Georgia received top rankings for Election Integrity by the Heritage Foundation, a top ranking for Voter Accessibility by the Center for Election Innovation & Research and tied for number one in Election Administration by the Bipartisan Policy Center.