The friend who tipped me off to this said he hasn't seen anyone else talking about it so here's the elaboration.
Georgia added an online portal that lets you cancel other people's voter registrations if you have all the requisite personal information (like the stuff that keeps getting leaked in massive data breaches).
Supposedly this was so people could cancel the registrations of dead relatives, but like. There's apparently no requirement to prove that the person is dead.
NAACP President & CEO: “We will continue to utilize all of the tools at our disposal to advance Black votes and ensure Black voices are hear
An army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists in search of registration errors that can be used to file what are known
Here is an article about the topic, focusing on one singular woman's crusade to challenge people's eligibility to vote, particularly targeting the homeless population (she also claims that she does nit have racist intentions but most of her targets are black).
The law allows challenges that threaten to disenfranchise voters and distract election workers from doing their job.
Here is also a Brennan Center article on the topic. The law also makes it so people have to go in person to defend their right to vote if the Board of Elections approves the challenge to your registration (the law indicated what things sound as sufficiant informtaition to warrant an in persom hearing and some of it is known to be unreliable) . It is important to note that they have been denying a lot of the challenges because they are based on little to no real evidence. Even so, these floods of voter challenges from random citizens about other random citizens is a total drain on elections judges resources and make it a lot harder for the Board of Elections to actually do their job
Check your voter registration often, especially as we approach the general election because people are trying to take away your right to vote and it is important that we do not let them
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