A certain rate of voter roll “purging” is normal in order to account for voters who die or move out of state.

But during the Biden administration,
right-wing groups pushed states to subject their voter rolls to nakedly partisan “purges”
far beyond the norm,
all in the name of combating purported
“voter fraud,”
as Truthout has previously reported.

Now, it seems, the Trump administration hopes analogous
anti-democratic schemes can be replicated at the federal level,
under the DOJ’s auspices.

Actual voter fraud by individual citizens,
it must be reiterated,
is so vanishingly rare that it is, in effect, nonexistent;

the tiny handful of cases are an utterly negligible factor in U.S. elections.

The only real threat to U.S. elections is issuing from the right
— and lately from the top as well.

#Ashiya #Brown is a former election security specialist for the Michigan secretary of state,
where she worked alongside federal election overseers.

She is now the state director of the Michigan branch of
"All Voting is Local"
— a national non-partisan voting rights organization
that works to improve ballot access.

All Voting, as it’s known, pursues civic education
while advocating against issues like gerrymandering and the many imposed hurdles to voting that lead to disenfranchisement.

In an op-ed in The Hill, Brown outlined the risks of imperiling electoral cybersecurity.

Speaking to Truthout, Brown said,
🔥“We see [the lawsuits] as an overall plan to weaponize the Department of Justice
in a manner to disenfranchise voters …
This is very strategic.”

She points out that not only are key battleground states among those sued,
but there’s also a correlation with the states in which Trump acolytes had created slates of
“fake electors”
in a foully corrupt attempt to steal the 2020 election.

“I do believe that these DOJ lawsuits are an abuse of power. Very much so.
🆘 They are seeking to weaponize sensitive voter data at the expense of our free and fair elections,” Brown went on.

“What they’re attempting to do is simply to purge the rolls …
We’re really seeing this as a push to get oversight of our state elections
— which we don’t need.
Elections are state-level for a reason.”

“I believe it’s all part of a bigger picture,” she added,
referring to the Trump administration’s larger push to gain federal control over elections.

#AshiyaBrown
#AllVotingIsLocal
#SamanthaTarazi #MassDisenfranchisement

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-doj-sues-to-force-states-to-share-confidential-voter-data/