Georgia man challenges eligibility of 13,600 voters

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Georgia man challenges eligibility of 13,600 voters

May 12, 2022

CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man is challenging the eligibility of more than 13,000 registered voters in his county in the northern part of the state.

Frank Schneider filed the challenge on Tuesday with the Forsyth County Board of Voter Registration and Elections, which will consider it during their regularly scheduled Thursday evening meeting, news outlets reported.

Schneider said in an email to Mandi Smith, director of the county’s voter registration and elections department, that he compared Forsyth County’s voter rolls with the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address database and found that 13,609 have an address that’s different than the one listed on their voter registration.

Georgia empowers any voter in a county or municipality to challenge the qualifications of anyone else on the voter rolls. A sweeping election law passed last year specified that there is no limit on the number of people whose qualifications a single voter can challenge.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/elections-georgia-voter-registration-a7ab26393e920f43a1823009e53e709a

[JohnSJ]

1. Why can't we play that same bs game

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. This comment confuses me

Forsyth County, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Atlanta, is wealthy and mostly white. It has been growing quickly and while it has traditionally voted solidly Republican, Democrats have made some inroads in recent elections.

We would of course assume this is a white person challenging POC, but is that what this is? Has he found that many democratic voters who are likely not white and challenging them or is he challenging the rich, white folks?

[Eugene]

5. Alternately this can be a bulk targeting of newcomers, who are more diverse

than the 100% white historic population. Also, general voter suppression tends to flag more POC voters.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Yeah, that is it. New folks who are not OK with white supremacists are being

targeted.

[gratuitous]

3. Is there no time limit on filing a challenge like this?

After all, it's been 553 days since the election in November 2020. Aren't the people of Georgia entitled to a final decision on the election count? Or is the challenge an open-ended thing, with no time limit? Can a Democrat challenge the voter eligibility of a sufficient number of voters in 2018 that Stacy Abrams could be declared the governor?

[Eugene]

4. This is a challenge to voters on the rolls. They will be flagged when they try to vote

in future elections, unless the official work to clear them.

Georgia lets any citizen challenge any persons eligibility to vote, and that power has been abused in the past.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. So if they dont show up with the right kind of ID (unconstitutional to require) they have to

cast provisional or NO ballot, I assume.