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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9143573

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.

Fueled by doubts about the 2020 election, an army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists, looking for registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges — questioning the registrations of thousands of Americans.

The undertaking, which includes the involvement of a lawyer tied to former President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, tends to affect minority or younger voters who may be statistically more likely to vote Democrat, according to local election officials.

  • Flying Squid
    64•1 year ago

    By design. Anything to stop PoC from voting.

      • spaceghotiEnglish
        23•1 year ago

        It does in the census, and they use that census data to draw district maps. It’s not a coincidence that they’ve been closing down registration and polling locations in areas dominated by PoC, especially if they also happen to be registered as Democrats.

      • @[email protected]
        14•1 year ago

        They target areas where they know it will predominantly affect PoC (or just democrats in general)

      • @surewhynotlem
        13•1 year ago

        Do you really think that Republican politicians are too stupid to know the demographics of different parts of their own state?

        I don’t think they’re that stupid.

      • @[email protected]English
        8•1 year ago

        Name and address goes pretty far, but likely the D or R on your reg will mean the most for these assholes.

      • @buddhaboundEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        If a district is 80% African American, and African Americans generally vote one 70/30 for Dems, you can select specific districts and remove a large chunk of support for Dems by challenging registrations for that district. Does it also hit some Republican voters? Yes. But this is how packing and cracking works, too - using the marginal gains to swing elections. There are many ways to target demographics without actually having any single piece of demographic information.