Eligible voters are being swept up in conservative activists' efforts to purge voter rolls
Eligible voters are being swept up in conservative activists' efforts to purge voter rolls
An army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists in search of registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9143573
Voters eligible to cast ballots are already being swept up in a grassroots effort to purge the nation's registration rolls ahead of the 2024 presidential election, a CBS News investigation has found.
Fueled by doubts about the 2020 election, an army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists, looking for registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges — questioning the registrations of thousands of Americans.
The undertaking, which includes the involvement of a lawyer tied to former President Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, tends to affect minority or younger voters who may be statistically more likely to vote Democrat, according to local election officials.
By design. Anything to stop PoC from voting.
Ya? Does your voter registration anywhere on it list color? Because mine doesn't.
They target areas where they know it will predominantly affect PoC (or just democrats in general)
Do you really think that Republican politicians are too stupid to know the demographics of different parts of their own state?
I don't think they're that stupid.
Name and address goes pretty far, but likely the D or R on your reg will mean the most for these assholes.
If a district is 80% African American, and African Americans generally vote one 70/30 for Dems, you can select specific districts and remove a large chunk of support for Dems by challenging registrations for that district. Does it also hit some Republican voters? Yes. But this is how packing and cracking works, too - using the marginal gains to swing elections. There are many ways to target demographics without actually having any single piece of demographic information.
Unsurprising. This has been happening with more regularity since at least 2016. If you're not regularly checking your voter status, especially before contentious elections (e.g. when abortion is on the ballot), you need to get in the habit yesterday.
Republicans aren't playing fair, because they don't want democracy. Assume they'll use every dirty trick more than twice at the eleventh hour.
They've been doing this for a while...the current Governor of Georgia expelled more legitimate voters than his margin of victory.
There needs to be a way to establish standing to challenge voter elligibility. It can't just be "people with too much free time."
Unless you work for the Secretary of State office and it's your JOB to determine eligibility, you shouldn't be able to challenge a goddamned thing.
The problem is that the Secretary of State in a lot of these states are complicit.
And if your voter eligibility gets challenged they should inform you, you shouldn't have to find out yourself
Throw it on the massive pile of election reforms that are desperately needed but will never happen because it will lessen the power of neoliberals and the far-right.
Every person over the age of 18 should be eligible to vote in their district and "moved" or "died" should be the only mechanism for removing a voter from the roll.
America also needs ranked choice voting, the removal of electoral college and protections against gerrymandering (such as multi member districts).
Unfortunately any change that is suggested breeds a new reactionary cult that for some reason we're supposed to politely listen to as they delay progress forever.
*are the primary targets of
Fuck the media for acting like this wasn't the #fascist's plan from the get-go.
Alt Headline: Victims of Conservatives are Being Victimized by Conservatives.
Since conservatives to a person are anti-democracy and racist this sounds about right
How the fuck do these conservatives have this kind of time to do this? They should go out and get jobs and contribute to society.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Voters eligible to cast ballots are already being swept up in a grassroots effort to purge the nation's registration rolls ahead of the 2024 presidential election, a CBS News investigation has found.
The challenger, a woman named Gail Lee, argued McWhorter improperly registered to vote at a commercial address and snapped photos of his barbershop, which is located inside an Atlanta-area Kroger supermarket, as evidence.
For example, public records reveal a local Republican Party activist in Virginia who attended a March strategy session, then filed a slate of 43 voter challenges in August, ahead of the November election.
Activists have also recently filed challenges in Washington state and Michigan, where a public records request revealed a GOP official conducted a "field investigation," going to dozens of homes to check if voters were registered to the correct address.
Convinced that rigged voting machines and bloated voter rolls helped deliver Mr. Biden the presidency — though officials found no such evidence — she attended an election integrity conference in Atlanta last year.
One of the people driving the push for grassroots activists to scrub voter rolls is a medical entrepreneur named John "Rick" Richards, who promotes a new software product that he described as a "Betty Crocker cookbook approach" that would expedite the challenge process.
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