Thread by @BrendanKeefe

We now know for sure that Texas-based Republican organization True The Vote is behind 'local' voter challenges in Cobb & other Georgia counties. GA law allows any voter to challenge any other voter in same county. Cobb has denied 49,000+ challenges from 2 people. Email header:

They're challenging enough voters in blue Georgia counties that they have set up a dedicated email address gaelectorchallenge-at-truethevote-dot-org. This is for the US Senate runoffs with voting currently underway.

Their latest challenge to Cobb, denied Friday, includes 61 addresses in Colorado Springs, close to three major military bases & the Air Force Academy. Georgians serving or attending college out of state are entitled to vote absentee as permanent GA residents.

Sure, we could knock on 30,000 doors and find out if all of those Georgia voters who changed their addresses are still registered; GA residents; serving in the military. But that's not how it works. You can't just file a list of names and disenfranchise people w/o other proof.

As we reported yesterday, the other big list filed by the Cobb GOP chair had dozens of direct military addresses. By the way, these people are all individually named in all of the databases and are effectively accused of voter fraud with no other proof.

https://twitter.com/BrendanKeefe/status/1339987754097270791

Here's the full email. It appears to be sent from the local voter who has affixed her name & voter ID number at the bottom, but it was sent directly from the Texas-based partisan organization. Yes, out of state orgs can recruit like-minded local voters to file these challenges.

The other challenge list from this same local voter showed the true source in the metadata:

11alive.com/article/news/p…

Anyone -- or any group -- outside of Georgia who wants to get specific voters kicked off the rolls can challenge that voter's right (or 10s of thousands of them) before the Senate runoffs. All you need is one proxy in the targeted county. So far, it hasn't worked.