Trump Allies Back Mass Challenge to Voter Eligibility in Georgia

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"The group filed 37,500 challenges to voters in Gwinnett County, a once solidly Republican area of suburban Atlanta that has voted Democratic since 2016." w/ @newkirkmargaret

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Trump Allies Back Mass Challenge to Voter Eligibility in Georgia
A group backed by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne is challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of Georgia voters just...
11:54 AM · Sep 1, 2022

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A group backed by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne is challenging the eligibility of tens of thousands of Georgia voters just weeks before the November election in the state where the former president fought hardest to overturn his 2020 loss.

The group, VoterGA, filed eight boxes Monday containing what its leader says are 37,500 challenges to voters in Gwinnett County, a once solidly Republican area of suburban Atlanta that has voted Democratic since 2016.

The move comes less than 10 weeks before the Nov. 8 general election and its tight races for governor and a U.S. Senate seat that could help decide control of the chamber. The challenges promise to make it harder for some registered voters to cast ballots and put a heavy burden on already stretched county elections officials charged under state law with responding to them quickly.

Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia, said the group has heard of similar efforts in Harris County, Texas; and Florida, but the challenges in Georgia are the most extensive currently underway.

She said it’s also troubling because Georgia law allows the state to take over local elections boards if it finds them incompetent. Many clerks are worried that if they don’t do a quick vetting of the mass challenges or the challenges lead to longer lines on Election Day, they’ll face a state takeover.

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1. Republicans are incredible human garbage!!! n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. The radicalized Republican party cannot appeal to voters so it seeks to eliminate voters.

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3. They must be really worried about Georgia

for some reason

[PortTack]

4. No doubt aimed at re-election of Senator Warnock.

Kemp did something similar and knocked 10s of thousands of voters off the roles. No doubt that’s how he won.

Can someone who knows explain why they have any right to even look at those voter rolls?

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5. The Republican policy is, "Anything but Democracy."

[crickets]

6. Kemp & Repubs really do not want Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock

to win a free and fair election.

This is timed close to the election, to make dealing with the issue as onerous as possible. The whole thing is ridiculous. GA counted the 2020 presidential votes three times and found the vote was accurate. The fraud taking place here is not coming from the voters.

"It’s contributed to making elections more expensive and more complicated without contributing anything to election security,” Woolard said. “It’s a terrible mess."

That is, of course, the whole point. 🤬