Right-Wing Activists Are Challenging Tens Of Thousands Of Voter Registrations

[Wicked Blue]

By Matt Shuham
Aug 8, 2024, 02:21 PM EDT
HuffPost

In his 34 years working in elections, Wesley Wilcox had never experienced what happened to him just a couple of weeks ago. A woman who said she was involved with the conspiracy theory group True the Vote came to his office with a list of names about 2,500 entries long, spanning about 800 printed pages.

She was challenging thousands of her neighbors’ eligibility to vote, and was urging Wilcox, the supervisor of elections in Marion County, Florida, to investigate them, and potentially, remove them from voter rolls altogether.

“This is by far the largest set of ‘challenges’ that have ever been delivered to this office,” Wilcox told HuffPost. “Exponentially so.”

And Wilcox isn’t alone. Since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and falsely blamed widespread voter fraud, right-wing activists have sought to “clean” the election system by deleting tens of thousands of their neighbors from voter rolls.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mass-voter-registration-challenges-2024-election_n_66b4ed22e4b042ee2cd052e3

[The Magistrate]

1. Stiff Penalties For False Accuations Are Needed

Something on the order of, say, for each challenge filed that fails, a two thousand dollar fine; with making more than a dozen false accusations rated as a misdemeanor of sufficient grade to entail a jail term in addition to the fines.

[Wicked Blue]

2. That's a very good idea