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.
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.
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.
Or, every citizen over 18 years of age is automatically registered to vote.
The voter purge problem is that they were already eligible, but were removed because they ‘might live elsewhere’ becsuse their name is similar to someone else or some other trivial reason. Automatic registration won’t fix the issue of voter rolls being too easy to purge and no one being held accountable for doing it maliciously.
And there are no disqualifications other than non citizen.
I think I agree with this. Creating vigilantes like this is going to cause more problems than it solves, especially considering most of these people are driven by political interests, have no professional training or education on the issue, and seem to be targeting voters (whether inadvertently or not) who already have challenges voting in the first place.
Is there a word for “rule by whoever is the most annoying”?
Democracy