A lawsuit by attorney Lin Wood to block next week’s Georgia Senate runoff election has been dismissed by a federal judge. Earlier this month, Wood filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, saying the secretary of state’s office violated the law in how it handled absentee and mail-in ballots during the Nov. 3 election. Wood argued that the state’s process to verify signatures on ballots was flawed, among other allegations. U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten Sr. denied Wood’s request for injunctive relief on Dec. 28, saying that the allegations in the lawsuit are speculative, while asserting that Wood lacked standing. “However, even taking his statements as true, Wood’s allegations show only the ‘possibility of future injury’ based on a series of events—which falls short of the requirement to establish a concrete injury,” the judge wrote in his order (pdf), adding that Wood’s claims “plainly contemplate only the possibility …