"[I]f the challenged does not appear in court...their voter registration is invalid."

[Nevilledog]

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MERKLEY mentions a section of #SB202 where "one individual can challenge the legitimacy of everyone in the precinct to be able to vote. And if the challenged does not appear in court, they are guilty until proven innocent and their voter registration is invalid."
8:40 AM · Jul 19, 2021

This article from Marc Elias in April explains

https://www.democracydocket.com/2021/04/the-worst-provision-of-a-very-bad-law/

*snip*

Buried in the new Georgia law are three provisions related to the ability to conduct mass challenges of voter eligibility.

The first states simply that “[t]here shall not be a limit on the number of persons whose qualifications such elector may challenge.” In other words, mass challenges are now expressly provided for in Georgia state law.

The second requires counties to hear any challenge within 10 days of providing the voter notice. Previously, counties that believed a challenge was frivolous or unwarranted could deny it or at least postpone consideration of the challenge until after the election. Now, counties are required to hold a hearing on each challenge, regardless of how frivolous the challenge. This means that voters whose eligibility to vote is challenged will receive a formal notice requiring them to attend or participate in a hearing (on as little as three-days’ notice). The county boards have the power to issue subpoenas in connection with these hearings. And, if a challenge is rejected, the challenger can appeal the decision in court.

Finally, if a county board fails to comply with this new mass challenge hearing process, the board itself is subject to sanctions by the state board. In other words, while the person who files a frivolous mass challenge faces no sanction, the board responding to challenges faces the risk of sanctions.

*snip*


This is the plan.......challenge Dem. voters and throw out all the votes for people who don't come to a hearing.

[we can do it]

1. Maybe we should start challenging all repukes in these districts.

[getagrip_already]

2. so mass challenge gop voters......

Does the law say you can't?

At least we can challenge every repug multiple times.

[keithbvadu2]

6. A different person challenges the governor every two weeks or so?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Aside from tha simple fact that this really sucks and is counter to the even simpler concept that...

the right to vote is fundamental, and should be the default, don't the idiots proposing this know that it would backfire?

No doubt some tricky Dems would use it to try to dump all R votes.

Again-- the right to vote should be assumed, not challenged, unless circumstances warrant a challenge.

[IbogaProject]

4. Or make challenger appear each time

make challenger appear each time and swear to having a reasonable stated cause to challenge swirn upset penalty of perjury.

[cbabe]

5. Greg Palast has

excellent reporting.

For example, GQP operative Pamela Reardon challenged 32,379 Georgia voters alone. When Greg showed her photos of individual voters she challenged, she couldn't identify any.

Greg asked her to discuss voting laws. She couldn't, declaring herself Canadian.

She ordered Greg out of her home with a string of obscenities.

Greg found 87 operatives challenging up to 364,000 voters.

This whole mess apparently violates the anti-KKK laws. The Feds need to bigfoot this yesterday.

[Hoyt]

9. Typical Palast. He fails to write about fact Reardon's challenge was quickly dismissed by county.

Regarding Pamela Rardon's challenge--

"COBB COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: The Cobb County Board of Elections & Registration unanimously voted to deny a full hearing two separate challenges that sought to disqualify thousands of registered voters ahead of the Jan. 5 Senate runoffs.

"In a meeting that lasted fewer than 20 minutes, the county's attorneys advised the board that they felt the challenges did not warrant probable cause for a full hearing. . . . . . .

"The Cobb election board vice chairman, Fred Aiken, before calling the vote to deny a hearing said that, "I agree that we have a lack of evidence for proof.""

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/cobb-county-voter-challenge-details/85-3d7ff8c2-5e76-423d-8a65-3bb78ce10d82


There are articles articles on the other challenges if you care to look them up.

[cbabe]

11. Thanks for

the update.

Now we know the rest of the story.

GQP tries it on. We knock it down. Repeat.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. Doesn't this law potentially cut both ways? Can't they do the same to R voters?

At least even things up a little?

[lame54]

10. Who is more likely to engage in this frivolous display...

And who is more likely to show up if challenged

[bahboo]

8. sounds like something out of Stalinist Russia....