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Rubyshoo

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Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:30 PM Aug 2024

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

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



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Right-Wing Activists Are Challenging Tens Of Thousands Of Voter Registrations (Original Post) Rubyshoo Aug 2024 OP
Fortunately, these "challenges" seldom get far, just like the challenge in the article. Voting rights attorneys Silent Type Aug 2024 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Fullduplexxx Aug 2024 #2
Cant beat em cheat em Fullduplexxx Aug 2024 #3
 

Silent Type

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1. Fortunately, these "challenges" seldom get far, just like the challenge in the article. Voting rights attorneys
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 02:37 PM
Aug 2024

will be all over challenges like this officials don't similarly respond.

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