The #GOP #Scheme That Could Bring Our #ElectoralSystem to Its Knees
An #underappreciated part of the Trump #attack on #democracy: #mass #voterchallenges. A “mass voter challenge” involves individual voters calling into question the eligibility of hundreds or thousands of voters all at once. #Frivolous mass voter challenges picked up after the 2020 #election and the viral spread of #TheBigLie
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-scheme-mass-voter-challenges
"REPUBLICAN" VOTER PURGE FIZZLES IN GEORGIA -- PEACHY
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Here is a new YouTube caption well worth reading and hunting up on Y'Tube:
Mass Voter Challenge in Georgia Dismissed
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vedB716CPA0
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#2024election #2024elections #2024presidentialelection #democracydocket #democrats #georgia #presidentialelection #presidentialelection2024 #voterchallenges #voterintimidation #voterpurges
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#Georgia #SB189 #VoterSuppression #VoterChallenges #2024Elections
Georgia Law Could Lead to More Voter Suppression, Advocates Warn — ProPublica
"SB 189, which goes into effect in July, will give Georgia residents more time to contest the eligibility of fellow citizens’ inclusion on voter rolls and make it easier to use questionable evidence in those challenges."
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-law-could-lead-to-more-voter-suppression
SB 189, which goes into effect in July, will give Georgia residents more time to contest the eligibility of fellow citizens’ inclusion on voter rolls and make it easier to use questionable evidence in those challenges.
#VoterChallenges #Georgia
The Virus of Mass Voter Challenges Threatens Democracy and Is Spreading Fast - Democracy Docket
"If the virus of mass voter challenges is an epidemic threatening to sweep across the nation and undermine our democracy, then Georgia is patient zero."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-virus-of-mass-voter-challenges-threatens-democracy-and-is-spreading-fast/
The #Michigan activists are part of an expansive web of grass-roots groups that formed after #Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat in 2020. The groups have made mass #VoterChallenges a top priority this #election year, spurred on by a fmr Trump #lawyer, #CletaMitchell, & True the Vote, a #vote-monitoring group w/a long history of spreading #misinformation.
#MAGA #VoterSuppression #disenfranchisement #ElectionInterference #law #ElectionLaw #democracy #VoteBlue #Biden2024
#Eligible #voters are being swept up in #conservative #extremists efforts to #purge #voter #rolls.
"It's young #voters, it's #PeopleOfColor, and it's people that are #unhoused. Those are generally the types of people that end up in #voterchallenges."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #VoterSupression #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #BlackMastodon
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eligible-voters-swept-up-conservative-activists-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.
Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists
https://www.propublica.org/article/right-wing-activists-georgia-voter-challenges
#GeorgiaVoterRegistrations #RightWingActivists #VoterChallenges #VoterSuppression #ElectionIntegrity #Democracy #Politics #News
The recent transformation of the state’s election laws explicitly enabled citizens to file unlimited challenges to other voters’ registrations. Experts warn that election officials’ handling of some of those challenges may clash with federal law.
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