Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Responds to Latest Lawsuit from Abrams–Elias Allies
Atlanta - Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger today responded to a lawsuit filed by activist groups challenging the cancellation of nearly half a million inactive voter registrations in 2025 as part of Georgia’s routine list maintenance procedures under state and federal law.
“For years, Georgia has faced politically motivated lawsuits designed to undermine voter confidence and weaken common-sense election safeguards,” said Raffensperger. “We have defeated claims from Stacey Abrams, Marc Elias, and their allies in court countless times to keep our election rolls clean. I am confident we will prevail again.”
Georgia conducts routine list maintenance in accordance with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) and state law to ensure that voter rolls remain accurate and up to date. These processes remove registrations that have become inactive due to relocation, death, felony status, or inactivity - all defined by state and federal law. In 2025 alone, Secretary Raffensperger directed the mailing of 263,627 National Change of Address (NCOA) notices to individuals who indicated an address change with the postal service, 218,951 notices to records without activity in five calendar years, 60,481 notices to individuals who likely moved out of state according to data from either the Department of Driver Services or the Electronic Registration Information Center, and 477,883 notices to records that had Inactive statuses for two federal general elections.
“Our office follows the law - period,” Raffensperger said. “Georgia’s voter list maintenance program is transparent, compliant, and essential to protecting the integrity of our elections. This same group continually tries to dismantle Georgia’s election safeguards and re-litigate our laws when they fail to win at the ballot box. Rest assured, I’m not backing down. Georgia’s voter rolls will be secure for the 2026 election.”
Since taking office, Raffensperger has successfully defended Georgia’s voter list maintenance and citizenship verification procedures in multiple state and federal court challenges, including repeated efforts to block commonsense election integrity measures passed by the General Assembly. Courts have consistently upheld Georgia’s authority to maintain clean voter lists with only eligible American citizens.
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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.