On February 4, U.S. District Court Judge Eleanor Ross, an Obama appointee, refused the Secretary of State’s request to dismiss Palast v Kemp, n.d., 1:18cv-4809. Greg Palast, a journalist, had filed this case in 2018 to obtain the the “Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck” list of voters that was sent to the Georgia Secretary of State by Kris Kobach, former Kansas Secretary of State. Kobach had set up a method for state election officials to see how many of their state’s registered voters might also be registered in other states.

Federal law says records relating to voter registration must be retained for two years, but the state says it didn’t keep the list. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.