Hours after NBC News revealed that at least 92,000 voter registrations had been challenged in 2022, Georgia Republicans proposed changes to make it even easier.
March 1, 2023, 12:24 AM UTCGeorgia Republicans introduced legislation Tuesday making it easier to kick voters off the rolls through mass challenges, according to a copy of the bill sent to lawmakers and shared with NBC News by an aide to two of the bill's sponsors.
Most of the challenges were rejected, and some counties said broadly that having mail forwarded was not enough evidence to conclude a voter moved. Some people spend time at other addresses without abandoning their residency in the state, advocates and election administrators told NBC News.The new S.B.
“If being on the [National Change of Address System] meant it was enough to take you off the voter rolls, that would be disastrous, and I hope immediately thrown out of court,” said Vasu Abhiraman, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, arguing federal voting rights law would prohibit such a rule.Jason Frazier, a Fulton County resident who filed thousands of 2022 voter challenges, spoke in defense of the bill at a Tuesday committee hearing.
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