A federal judge on Monday ordered two counties in Georgia to stop the removal of thousands of voters from voter rolls. Election boards in Ben Hill and Muscogee counties did not appear to have received written confirmation that the voters whose statuses were challenged had changed their addresses, District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner—the sister of former Democrat gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams—wrote in her order. If true, that means the pending removal of over 4,000 voters would violate the National Voter Registration Act, Gardner said. There’s also “a substantial likelihood of success on the merits” regarding the plaintiffs’ claim that the challenge to a group of voters less than a month before the Jan. 5, 2021, Senate runoff elections appears to be a type of “systemic” removal prohibited by the act. “While the court acknowledges that an injunction may burden defendants in their role managing the ongoing election, the harm to voters whose …