A federal judge in Atlanta on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit intended to curtail long voting lines at polling places in the state’s four largest counties during the 2018 election.

U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg of the Northern District of Georgia dismissed the voting-rights case, brought by the ACLU of Georgia and the ACLU Foundation in New York, without prejudice. This left open the possibility that it could be refiled “if or when the county elections officials (or the state for that matter) fail to constitutionally carry out their duties to properly conduct and administer the 2020 elections.”

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