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.

  • @[email protected]
    38•1 year ago

    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.