2y ago

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

www.propublica.org

The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.

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2y ago

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

www.propublica.org /article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges

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2y ago

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

www.propublica.org /article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges

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Trying to erroneously remove someone’s ability to vote needs to be a crime. This is denying citizens their sovereign rights, and people need to be held accountable when this is done fraudulently.
- Oh it’s absolutely a crime already. But only if the left were to attempt it.
The Republican war on free and fair elections will never end.
- Those 6 should have their voter registration reviewed. Any bets on how many would be rejected?
  
  They don't care. They've already influenced politics far more than they even could by voting.
  
  Maybe all 6 are just the same person anyway
Just for the record. Dems can do this too. Guarantee some of these trumpets have a lake home and a real home and it would be pretty easy to challenge residency.
Assuming that their challenge law is simple, which if someone challenged 100,000 voters it kinda seems to be.
Fyi. Someone tried this in Montana in the 2000s and was chided out of court.
- If there's no penalty for false challenges, Democrats should challenge every Republican registration.
  
  Fuck that. Let’s run a script to programmatically file challenges for all Republican voter registrations. If they really want to play this game, I am down to clown, motherfuckers.
- Republican majority board, if they could guess who's who from where the challenges come from they might just game it anyway
100,000 challenges and not one single prosecution.
Having to register to be able to vote is so silly to begin with.
- In light of the fact that the US has no national ID, and the Constitutional ban on poll taxes, combined with the requirement individual states run their own elections, registration is the best option there is.
  We need a way to ensure people are eligible to vote, and a way to ensure people only vote once. A big list of "people who can vote" is the answer.
  That said: getting on the list should be easy. Removing someone from the list should be hard.
  
  I feel like this is under-thinking it a bit, but bear with me:
  Birth certificate: Added to the list.
  Death certificate: Removed from the list
  Then it's just a matter of checking age and voting in the correct precinct.
Oh yeah the same state with the illegitimate republican governor that oversaw his own election.
Theyre all about the sanctity of elections
Usually isn't any penalty.
I also did a quick Google search and it looks easy AF.
Just need money to buy the datasets and rudimentary SQL knowledge to run a query.
I wonder who opened that loophole?
Edit- /s

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