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Advocates for Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday alleging far-reaching U.S. voting rights violations during the Georgia governor’s contest she lost this month to a Republican who ran the election as secretary of state.

Abrams, who sought to become the nation’s first female African-American governor, pledged to fight for electoral changes after a protracted vote count saw Brian Kemp win the race by little more than 1 percent of nearly 4 million votes cast.

Kemp resigned as secretary of state after the Nov. 6 election.

The lawsuit filed by Fair Fight Action, a voting advocacy group headed by Abrams’ campaign manager, said state election officials “grossly mismanaged an election that deprived Georgia citizens, and particularly citizens of color, of their fundamental right to vote.”

The complaint cited issues from sweeping purges of the voter rolls to shuttered precincts, voting equipment failures and late absentee ballots.

Black and minority voters were disproportionately disenfranchised, the lawsuit said. It said 70 percent of the voters whose registrations were pending over the “exact match” policy before the election were black, although African-Americans account for about one-third of the population.

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