ATLANTA — A federal court judge has handed a partial victory and a partial defeat to both sides in a lawsuit over a controversial election reform bill the General Assembly passed two years ago.
Judge J.P. Boulee granted a preliminary injunction Friday to civil rights and voting rights groups temporarily blocking portions of Senate Bill 202 that restricted volunteers from providing food and water to voters waiting in long lines at the polls. In a partial win for the plaintiffs, the judge declared the ban would apply only within 150 feet of a polling place.
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