Activists Flood Election Offices With Challenges

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Activists driven by false theories about election fraud are working to toss out tens of thousands of voter registrations & ballots in battleground states, part of a loosely coordinated campaign that is sowing distrust & threatening further election turmoil
Voters at a polling place during Georgia’s 2021 runoff election, which sent two Democrats, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, to the Senate.
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Activists Flood Election Offices With Challenges
Groups fueled by right-wing election conspiracy theories are trying to toss tens of thousands of voters from the rolls. “They are just going to beat the system into the ground,” said one election...
3:47 PM · Sep 29, 2022

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Activists driven by false theories about election fraud are working to toss out tens of thousands of voter registrations and ballots in battleground states, part of a loosely coordinated campaign that is sowing distrust and threatening further turmoil as election officials prepare for the November midterms.

Groups in Georgia have challenged at least 65,000 voter registrations across eight counties, claiming to have evidence that voters’ addresses were incorrect. In Michigan, an activist group tried to challenge 22,000 ballots from voters who had requested absentee ballots for the state’s August primary. And in Texas, residents sent in 116 affidavits challenging the eligibility of more than 6,000 voters in Harris County, which is home to Houston and is the state’s largest county.

The recent wave of challenges have been filed by right-wing activists who believe conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 presidential election. They claim to be using state laws that allow people to question whether a voter is eligible. But so far, the vast majority of the complaints have been rejected, in many cases because election officials found the challenges were filed incorrectly, rife with bad information or based on flawed data analysis.

Republican-aligned groups have long pushed to aggressively cull the voter rolls, claiming that inaccurate registrations can lead to voter fraud — although examples of such fraud are exceptionally rare. Voting rights groups say the greater concern is inadvertently purging an eligible voter from the rolls.

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[bluestarone]

1. I would be BANNED if i said what i want to say.

But we better be prepared for the worst election ever. THEN look out in 24!!

[maxsolomon]

2. I highly doubt you would be banned.

Don't make death threats, though.

[BlueIdaho]

3. There should be criminal penalties

For those who gum up the works with evil intent.