A federal judge ruled Friday that Georgia Secretary of State and GOP candidate for governor Brian Kemp must allow recently naturalized U.S. citizens to vote Tuesday, provided they can show proof of citizenship at the polls.

The judge’s directory comes from a preliminary injunction in a still-pending case against Secretary Kemp’s office. Mr. Kemp was put at the receiving end of several lawsuits in October following a bombshell Associated Press report that Kemp’s office had marked 53,000 voter registration applications as “pending”.  The applications did not pass the state’s “exact match” protocol, which requires that the information on voter registration applications match the individual’s DMV records to each character.

A sizable minority of the applications were marked “pending” because the applicant was naturalized as U.S. citizen but had not yet updated his or her DMV records to reflect that. It is this latter group of approximately 3,100 individuals for whom Friday’s preliminary injunction provides “targeted relief”.

The judge also tasked Sec. Kemp with implementing a process for election workers to verify proof of citizenship, disseminating information online to assist wrongly flagged voters, and issuing a press release on the issue.

The ruling Friday only deals with about six percent of the 53,000 people whose voter registrations are pending. These individuals can still vote, however, provided they bring some other official identification document with them to the polls. Examples include a valid or expired Georgia driver’s license, a valid Georgia voter identification card, or a valid student photo ID card issued by a Georgia school or a passport.

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