True the Vote Partners with Georgians in Every County to Preemptively Challenge 364,541 Potentially Ineligible Voters
Citizen-led Effort Seeks to Confirm All Votes Cast in U.S. Senate Runoff Elections are Legal, While Ensuring Any Voter Challenged Has Full Opportunity to Prove Their Voting Eligibility
Dec 18, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia – True the Vote announced today it is submitting 364,541 Elector Challenges on behalf of Georgia voters representing all 159 counties. An Elector Challenge is a unique feature in Georgia law (GA. CODE ANN. § 21-2-230). It allows a voter to challenge the eligibility of any other voters in his or her county if probable cause exists to show that the challenged voter does not meet the qualifications legally required to cast a ballot. It represents one of the few vehicles that states have to update voter rolls ahead of an election without compromising any legitimate voters’ right to have their vote counted.
@Hoodat @Cyber LibertyFederal law "Help America Vote Act" "HAVA", passed in 2002, established the Secretary of State of every state, to be responsible for the official "State Voter List". It is the only master voter list of the state. The Secretary of State office has access to information to determine if a voter is a legal voter. The SOS has access to death certificates, driver's license information, police records, personal physical addresses, passports, etc. Using this information allows the SOS to keep an updated official voter list.
I was working in politics when this federal law was passed and observed the Texas Election Code being changed to reflect the changes necessary to agree with the federal law. This HAVA act took place in all states, including Georgia. This is what is "supposed" to happen if a person wants to be a voter. The person goes to the county courthouse to the election division and fills out the form to be a voter. This application is "supposed" to be sent to the Secretary of State to examine the voter to determine if the person can be a legal voter. If the person passes those tests, the county is contacted to put the name on the voter list. If the person does not pass those tests, the county is told not to put that name on their voter list.
Each county is "supposed" to do this:
When they send out voter cards, if it comes back undeliverable, the voter name is tagged. When cards are sent out again, if it comes back as undeliverable, the voter name is tagged again. The number of times coming back varies according state, but at some point, the name is removed from the county voter list.
Do you see how long it takes to legally remove a voter's name?
Years, except for deceased voters. There is
no way to determine
right now who is a legal voter in Georgia and who is not and that is what this "True the Vote" group says it wants to do.
One more thing: Every county clerk and every Secretary of State receives a copy of the
death certificate of a person so the name is taken off the voter list both at the county level and state level.