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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Boulee rejects the organizations' joint motion for a preliminary injunction in a civil rights action seeking to block enforcement of five provisions in a Georgia law governing election-related processes. The organizations alleged that the provisions in S.B. 202 are racially discriminatory and violate the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The provisions at issue govern the number and location of drop boxes, prohibit distribution of food and drink to voters waiting in line, set a deadline for submitting applications to vote absentee, prohibit the counting of out-of-precinct provisional ballots cast before 5:00 p.m. and require voters applying for an absentee ballot to provide their driver's license or state identification card number. The organizations failed to show that they are substantially likely to succeed in showing that the provisions have a disparate impact on Black voters. The organizations also failed to show that the legislature intended to discriminate against Black voters with the law's passage.