southernhybrid
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It's happening. Voters eligibility are being questioned in Georgia by other voters.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/severa...bility-challenges/WOUAH77TLRBD5A5HLLFSJV3S44/
II guess if you're homeless, you can't vote.
I'd be willing to bet that those who were upheld were people who moved out of the state and had no intention of voting in Georgia, or who had died. Dead people don't vote, despite what the crazies on the right claim. This is simply an attempt to suppress the vote.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/severa...bility-challenges/WOUAH77TLRBD5A5HLLFSJV3S44/
When Barbara Helm tried to vote, she found out that her Georgia voter registration had been challenged by another voter and canceled last summer.
Helm, who is homeless and sleeps in her car, lost her ability to vote after a local Republican voter used the state’s election laws to contest the registrations of over 31,000 Forsyth County voters this year. About 600 of his challenges were successful.
In Helm’s case, the county elections board upheld the challenge against her in June because, lacking a residential address, she had registered to vote using the address of a post office in Cumming.
II guess if you're homeless, you can't vote.
The people who have filed voter challenges often rely on change-of-address records or addresses that don’t match residential properties.
But some of their challenges affect eligible voters such as Helm. The man who challenged Helm, Frank Schneider, couldn’t be reached for comment Monday through publicly listed phone numbers.
In another case, this time in Fulton County, Stephanie Friedman said she was shocked to be told that her registration had been challenged when she attempted to cast a ballot last week at the Milton Library.
Friedman, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2016, was allowed to cast a regular ballot after election officials called the main office and verified her information.
“Nobody was able to tell me what this meant. Why me?” Friedman said. “Imagine somebody who is more vulnerable, who is very busy, who has to be clocking in somewhere.”
It's conservatives who are challenging these voter registrations. It's unlikely that any who were lawfully removed tried to vote, but a lot who were removed had to go to extra trouble to prove that they were legally registered. It doesn't seem right that homeless people can't vote, but how do you have a valid address if you're have to live on the streets? There are a lot of homeless people who have lost jobs or can't afford the rapidly increasing rents. I know of one woman who had to move in with her son because her rent was raised by several hundred dollars per month. Luckily for her, she has a son who invited her to move in with him. If not for that, she would be a 75 year old homeless woman.The fact that legitimate voters are learning they were challenged when they show up at polling places is problematic, said Kristin Nabers, state director for the voting rights organization All Voting Is Local.
Voters shouldn’t have to overcome unnecessary obstacles from challenges that incorrectly targeted them, Nabers said.
“Allegations of voter fraud and challenges to voter eligibility are not based on any reality. It’s really just a way to effectuate this never-ending stream of lies about our elections,” Nabers said. “It’s meant to intimidate voters. It’s meant to confuse voters.”
Georgians who identify themselves as conservatives or election skeptics have challenged over 65,000 voter registrations across the state this year, based on a belief that voter lists are inaccurate and vulnerable to fraud. County election boards have upheld about 3,200 of the challenges and thrown out the rest.
I'd be willing to bet that those who were upheld were people who moved out of the state and had no intention of voting in Georgia, or who had died. Dead people don't vote, despite what the crazies on the right claim. This is simply an attempt to suppress the vote.