Trumpists are challenging tens of thousands of voter registrations in battleground states
Election deniers are focused on battleground states and counties with disproportionately large Black populations. These everyday citizens have made it their mission to purge voter registrations and ballots in order to, ostensibly, make elections safe again.
The New York Times reports that in Georgia, around 65,000 voter registrations have been challenged—many for alleged address issues; 22,000 ballots in Michigan were challenged after a group in that state claimed voters had incorrectly asked for absentee ballots for the August primary, and in Texas, the eligibility of over 6,000 voters in Harris County, where Houston sits, were questioned. Thankfully, most of the challenges have been rejected.
All of these recent voting disputes are coming from MAGA Republican groups who falsely believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump in a bizarre conspiracy that has been debunked by more than 60 judges and, at this point, hundreds of officials from every rank of government.
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