Voter challenges, records requests swamp election offices

[ificandream]

Source: Associated Press/By NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Spurred by conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, activists around the country are using laws that allow people to challenge a voter’s right to cast a ballot to contest the registrations of thousands of voters at a time.

In Iowa, Linn County Auditor Joel Miller had handled three voter challenges over the previous 15 years. He received 119 over just two days after Doug Frank, an Ohio educator who is touring the country spreading doubts about the 2020 election, swung through the state.

In Nassau County in northern Florida, two residents challenged the registrations of nearly 2,000 voters just six days before last month’s primary. In Georgia, activists are dropping off boxloads of challenges in the diverse and Democratic-leaning counties comprising the Atlanta metro area, including more than 35,000 in one county late last month.

Election officials say the vast majority of the challenges will be irrelevant because they contest the presence on voting rolls of people who already are in the process of being removed after they moved out of the region. Still, they create potentially hundreds of hours of extra work as the offices scramble to prepare for November’s election.



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[yankee87]

1. More Q conspiracy

I'm going out on a limb here and say almost all of the challenges will be for minority voters. There will be nearly zero challenges in places where the 1% live.

[ificandream]

2. Don't think you are at all. Of course that's what's behind all this.

[Novara]

9. collusion conspiracy

But what, if anything, can be a criminal charge here? If the DOJ could find a criminal violation here, they could likely prove collusion and add a conspiracy charge.

[JoeTheRat]

3. Gee, who could've ever guessed...

It's almost like they don't want us to attempt it at all...

We will, but...

[KS Toronado]

4. "they don't want us to attempt"

What don't they want us to attempt?

And welcome to DU.

[JoeTheRat]

5. Thank you. *bow*

Voting is the answer -- another form of vote suppression.

[NullTuples]

6. Where are they getting their lists of voters to challenge?

[wishstar]

7. Voter registration info is publicly accessible and readily available online in many places

Every registered voter's listed address and party affiliation are easy to obtain.

[NullTuples]

11. So they're just picking random names? I find that...unlikely.

[mackdaddy]

8. There should be some pushback, legal or civil, for challenging a voter without cause.

There should be some push back that unless you have some direct valid information or cause that are challenging a citizens right to vote. If you do not have some direct knowledge then filing a frivolous challenge is trying to take away another citizens civil rights and should have consequences.

Make it cost these people.

[Novara]

10. They don't have to fast-track these challenges

Still, they create potentially hundreds of hours of extra work as the offices scramble to prepare for November’s election.

I mean, getting ready for the election should be the priority here. And once the election does happen, these challenges drop off as the people they've challenged didn't vote. Seems to be the more efficient way to handle this is to wait until after this election.