Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California.

“Election officials across the country have been inundated with dubious complaints about inaccurate voter rolls, which have wasted government resources and sapped taxpayer money spent reviewing lists of registered voters that officials say are already care fully maintained…”

“One of the main drivers of the fruitless challenges is a conservative Texas-based nonprofit group called True the Vote, an election-monitoring organization that has long peddled debunked voter-fraud theories.”

  • retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is why it’s important to make sure people in your life know where to go to confirm their registration: https://www.usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration

    Currently the GOP is doing this for obvious reasons, but the Democrats will also try this kind of thing during primaries. They “cleaned” a swath of young people within the demographic that leaned towards Sanders back in 2016.

    Always check your registration leading up to an election.

      • retrospectology@lemmy.world
        10·
        4 months ago

        https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2018/11/nyc-purged-200000-voters-in-2016-it-wasnt-a-mistake/177964/

        Then-New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would eventually reveal that they were among 200,000 New York City voters who had been illegally wiped off the rolls and prevented from voting in the presidential primary. But by January of 2017, when Schneiderman announced that he would intervene in a federal lawsuit against the New York City Board of Elections, along with the U.S. Department of Justice, the news fell on deaf ears.

        […]

        As the candidates entered the New York race, Clinton was leading Sanders by 209 pledged delegates. Although The New York Times, the Daily News and Newsday had endorsed Clinton, the momentum was with Sanders, who had come off seven straight primary wins. By April 2016, Sanders had narrowed Clinton’s initial 60-point lead with voters nationally, to 10 points, and appeared to be gaining on her. However, a Sanders victory in New York had been deemed a long shot, based on Clinton’s formidable support by the local Democratic Party establishment.

        Essentially Sanders was closing the gap with the votes, so the establishment helped kneecap his momentum for Clinton’s benefit.