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Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner, a federal judge in Georgia and sister of failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, blocked challenges to voter eligibility in two Georgia counties ahead of the January 5 Senate runoff.

Gardner ruled on Monday in favor of Majority Forward, the nonprofit organization of former Clinton campaign attorney Marc Elias, who remains at the helm of many of the voting challenges seeded throughout the U.S. He contended that Republicans tried to “disenfranchise thousands of voters, particularly 4,000 in two Georgia counties- Ben Hill County and Muscogee County- based on groundless “change-of-address” data.

The challenge was brought forward by a voter named Ralph Russell in mid-December, alleging that he “had compared evidence from publicly accessible voter registration databases to prove that these voters had moved out of Georgia,” per Politico.

Reportedly Russell told the board that he believed that the individuals “as a result of registering their name and change of address to a location outside of Muscogee Country, removed to another state with the intention of making the new state their residence,”

“Thus, each individual has lost their residence in Muscogee County, and consequently, each individual is ineligible to vote in Muscogee County,” he argued, winning support from the board. The decision of the board required those on the list to instead cast provisional ballots as well as show “additional evidence of residency to vote.”

“Ongoing debates regarding the November election throughout the country have Americans focused intently on improving the integrity of our elections and restoring the faith of the voters,” True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement.

“Today we assisted concerned Georgia voters in taking a stand for the sanctity of every legal vote,” she added.

Gardner, however, sided with the plaintiffs, concluding that the counties “improperly relied on unverified change-of-address data to invalidate registrations”

“This makes no sense. A judge (the sister of Stacey Abrams) ruled that when someone tells the US Postal Service that they have moved they still can vote from their old address,” Ari Fleischer, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush, remarked following the news of the ruling:

Elias Referred to the ruling as a “blow to GOP voter suppression” – a narrative commonly touted by Democrats, including the judge’s sister, Stacey Abrams:

Tuesday Abrams will be joining Julia Louis-Dreyfus for a final grassroots fundraiser to flip Georgia “blue blue blue.”