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"Dismissed: Suit to End Long Voting Lines in Georgia's Largest Counties Fails," Daily Report

In an article published by the Daily Report on February 12, 2020, Bryan Tyson is referenced as counsel to the Gwinnett County election board. 

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the voting-rights case intended to curtail long voting lines at polling places in the state's four largest counties during the 2018 election, brought by the ACLU of Georgia and the ACLU Foundation in New York, without prejudice. 

In the ruling, Totenberg said that any remedy requiring county election boards to provide "all necessary funds to adequately conduct the elections" or instructing them "to take all necessary actions to carry out their functions so as not to impinge on voters' federal constitutional rights ... is nothing more than a request that the court order the counties and [boards of elections] to comply with their statutory obligation."
 

"This court cannot guarantee that voters will not have to stand in line, or that absentee ballots will not get delayed or lost in the mail," Totenberg concluded. "And any injunction that would pretend otherwise and purport to impose obligations on defendants to take 'all necessary action' to ensure against such circumstances would be too amorphous to be capable of enforcement."

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