By design. Anything to stop PoC from voting.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2023
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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.
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.
They've been doing this for a while...the current Governor of Georgia expelled more legitimate voters than his margin of victory.
*are the primary targets of
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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