88 #Georgia GOP operatives used lists created by True the Vote out of #Texas to challenge the votes of 364,000 Georgians.
True the Vote's major funder is #Wisconsin's Bradley Foundation, the new #KochBros, who've dedicated $2 billion to right-wing causes.
True the Vote's major funder is #Wisconsin's Bradley Foundation, the new #KochBros, who've dedicated $2 billion to right-wing causes.
True the Vote's 88 Georgia proxies had originally challenged the counting of these voters' ballots in December, just three weeks before the Georgia Senate run-off race. ajc.com/politics/eligi…
Many of these voters had already mailed in their ballots and were unaware of the attempt to prevent their counting.
Had the challenges succeeded, it is unlikely that the Democrats would have taken both Senate seats—and the US Senate would have remained under Republican control.
However, in December, the #ACLU blocked this initial challenge, warning the counties that federal law prohibits blockades of voters within 90 days of an election. aclu.org/press-releases…
Voting officials in Cobb and other counties also questioned whether one individual could reasonably have knowledge of the status of thousands of other voters.
One woman alone, Pamela Reardon, challenged the eligibility of 32,379 voters in Cobb County! gregpalast.com/364000-voters-…
One woman alone, Pamela Reardon, challenged the eligibility of 32,379 voters in Cobb County! gregpalast.com/364000-voters-…
When informed that True the Vote was resurrecting the challenges under #SB202, attorney @RahulGarabadu said: "Probable cause requires some individualized suspicion.. you can't just print out reams and reams of information.. and throw them to a county."
But #SB202 does just that, allowing any #Georgia voter to challenge an unlimited number of other voters. gregpalast.com/uncovered-ille…
#VotingRights attorney @RahulGarabadu also explained the crazy hoops voters would have to leap through to get their ballots counted.
Counties will be forced, on the basis of any unfounded claim against thousands of voters, to mail each a postcard requiring the voter to come into their county clerk’s office and prove their residence.
Not only will few take the day from work to stand in line at a clerk’s office to save their one vote, imagine, as @RahulGarabadu did, what might happen if tens of thousands of voters crowded into these small offices “in the middle of a pandemic.”
And that's the point...
Raffensperger encouraged challenges by citizen electors to circumvent federal protections saying: “Though federal law restricts our ability to update our voter registration lists, the Elector Challenge is a vehicle under our law to ensure voter integrity.” gregpalast.com/secretary-of-s…
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