Georgia vs. U.S. Department of Injustice
Voting rights groups in Georgia were successful in stopping State election officials from using Social Security numbers and driver’s license data to check voters’ immigration status. Advocacy groups had told a federal three-judge panel that using the data to verify whether voters are citizens amounts to a “systematic purging” of voting rolls that must be approved by the Justice Department. Why does the State of Georgia need approval by the Justice Department? The answer, according to the Department of Justice, is because…