The Republican National Committee is backing the state of Georgia against a lawsuit alleging that GOP county officials improperly purged 1,000 voter registrations at the pushing of pro-Trump election conspiracy theorists, reported Rolling Stone on Monday.
According to the report, some 19 counties in Georgia have election deniers in charge of elections, and "election denial activists have filed mass challenges to voters they say should be removed from voter rolls. Those challenges alleged that voters had changed addresses but illegally remained on voter rolls. Many of those challenges were 'based on unvetted documentation and unreliable information provided by private citizens, such as screenshots of purported property records or social media posts,' says the New Georgia Project and the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, which filed the lawsuit on July 31."
One of the consequences of this "repeated, unlawful removal of eligible voters," according to the lawsuit, is the removal of some homeless people who are nonetheless qualified to vote.
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However, the RNC, along with the Georgia Republican Party, is stating in their motion to intervene that the state's “interests could be irreparably harmed by an order overriding Georgia’s election rules and undermining the integrity of Georgia’s elections.”
All of this comes at the same time that the state election board, newly staffed with far-right activists supported by Trump, has moved to change the rules to empower county election officials to refuse to certify results at their own discretion, something that critics contend is against the law and could throw the election into chaos. The same board also directed the state to reopen an investigation into ballots in Fulton County.
State Attorney General Chris Carr, himself a Republican, fired back at the second decision on Monday, telling the board they had no authority to order him to reopen that investigation.
