{"id":299,"date":"2023-07-13T15:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:20:02","slug":"common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press\/common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Georgia Statement on Litigation against True the Vote for False Claims"},"template":"","class_list":["post-299","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"True the Vote, a Texas-based group that has pursued widely-disproven election conspiracy theories, was sued this week by the Georgia State Election Board for failing to provide information to the state board. \r\n","featured_image":"","press_type":145,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":12070}"],"related_issues":[87,100,109,400],"related_work":[111],"location":13},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ATLANTA \u2014 True the Vote, a Texas-based group that has pursued widely-disproven election conspiracy theories, was sued this week by the Georgia State Election Board for failing to provide information to the state board.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group failed to comply with subpoenas by the state board to provide information about unsubstantiated allegations that voters in the Atlanta area were paid to drop off multiple ballots in drop boxes during the 2020 presidential elections. The allegations were aired in the film \u201c2000 Mules\u201d that has been embraced by conservative election deniers.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<h3><\/h3>\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Statement from <\/span><b>Aunna Dennis, Common Cause Georgia\u2019s executive director<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI commend the State Election Board for taking this step,\u201d Dennis said. \u201cThe people of Georgia deserve to see True the Vote\u2019s false claims of election issues called out as the dangerous lies they are. We in Georgia need to know that our voting rights will always be respected and applaud the State Election Board for holding True the Vote accountable for their reckless and undemocratic actions.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Note: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Common Cause Georgia<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-release\/true-the-vote-and-georgia-republican-party-violated-campaign-finance-laws-by-illegally-coordinating-ahead-of-january-senate-runoff-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> filed a separate 2021 complaint <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">against True the Vote with the Federal Election Commission for violating federal campaign finance laws by coordinating with the Georgia Republican Party in the 2021 Senate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">runoff election. That complaint was dismissed by the FEC for failing to gain enough votes to proceed despite recommendation from non-partisan staff to investigate the matter further. Common Cause, represented by the Campaign Legal Center, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-release\/fec-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">filed a subsequent federal lawsuit <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in October 2022 to compel the FEC to enforce existing campaign finance laws in this situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common Cause Georgia Statement on Litigation against True the Vote for False Claims - Common Cause Georgia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common Cause Georgia Statement on Litigation against True the Vote for False Claims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press\/common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Georgia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/georgia\/press-releases\/common-cause-georgia-statement-on-litigation-against-true-the-vote-for-false-claims\/\",\"name\":\"Common Cause Georgia Statement on Litigation against True the Vote for False Claims - 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