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Stacey Abrams and her allies have been ordered to pay over $200,000 in court costs after a federal judge in September ruled against their Fair Fight Action organization on all counts in a voting-rights lawsuit tied to Abrams’s loss in her 2018 race for governor of Georgia.
In total, Fair Fight Action is required to pay $231,304 in fees related to transcripts and copies used during the trial, according to court documents released Tuesday. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the defendant in the lawsuit, called the order a “win for taxpayers and voters who knew all along that Stacey Abrams’ voter suppression claims were false.”
“This is a start,” Raffensperger said in a prepared statement, “but I think Stacey Abrams should pay back the millions of taxpayer dollars the state was forced to spend to disprove her false claims.”
The Fair Fight Action lawsuit was filed weeks after the 2018 election, when Abrams lost to now-Governor Brian Kemp but refused to concede. Abrams maintained that she was cheated, and she alleged that the race was “stolen from Georgians.”
Through the lawsuit, Abrams had sought to make far-reaching changes to the state’s elections by invoking the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination. However, many of Fair Fight’s allegations about voter-registration cancellations, long voting lines, and voting machines were thrown out.
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