Woman has challenged hundreds of voter registrations in Georgia

Saw this post at Bluesky, and then read this: 

their volunteer group had spent the last several months challenging voter rolls and expressing skepticism about the upcoming presidential election before either candidate received a single vote.

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A longtime compliance officer, [the 65-year-old woman] had found her political voice during the last few years by taking advantage of a new Georgia law that allows private citizens to file mass challenges against other people’s eligibility to vote. She has legally challenged more than a thousand voters in Chatham County during the past 18 months

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In Pittsburgh, a Trump supporter has challenged more than 25,000 people

"Alabama GOP chairman made the photo ID he used to vote"

"'It does not meet the standard of any voter ID requirements listed under 17-9-30'"

Truly, this design is worth voting for

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— sammy maine (@sammymaine) July 5, 2022

"What happened when poll guards showed up in heavily Latino [Orange County, California] districts in 1988"

From an interview of Gustavo Arellano at KCRW:

“On the morning of November 8, you start getting all these phone calls from across Orange County, or specifically in the city of Santa Ana, like, ‘Hey, there's these police officers or security guards or just thugs outside voting precincts in heavily Latino districts holding up signs that are saying non-citizens cannot vote or asking people for their ID.’ … This was done at the behest of the Orange County Republican Party to influence the election for a vacant Assembly seat. Curt Pringle ended up winning by less than 1000 votes in that 1988 election.”

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there were never any criminal charges filed, even though the state, the OC DEA, the FBI, the feds, they investigated it. Although very tellingly in 1989, the year after this happened, then Governor George Deukmejian, a conservative Republican, signed into law a bill that outlawed uniform security guards being within 100 feet of any poll. … The Republican Party did end up having to pay about half a million dollars in fines, but it didn't kill the career of Curt Pringle, he ended up becoming the last Republican Speaker of the Assembly.”

(Excerpts from various articles about the incident.)

"Lost thumb drive changes [Mississippi] Coast Senate race"

SunHerald:

With all precincts in Tuesday night, incumbent Rep. Scott DeLano held a 33-vote lead over Biloxi City Councilwoman Dixie Newman. That lead was without the affidavit votes, but DeLano declared the victory late Tuesday evening.

“We look at these elections and see how many affidavits that are out there. It’s very unusual to make a really big difference in the outcome,” told the Sun Herald Tuesday night. “Even though it’s razor-thin, we expect it to fall in line with what the vote came out of those individual precincts.”

It wasn’t the affidavits, but a thumb drive that changed the race Wednesday afternoon.

“There was a drive that was left out from the D’Iberville Civic Center,” Newman’s campaign manager Holly Gibbes said. “Those numbers were never counted. (Harrison County Circuit Clerk) Connie Ladner‘s office produced that thumb drive today and added it in.

“The thumb drive and all the affidavits, absentees and what could be counted is what put Dixie up by one vote.”

WLOX:

Ten precincts throughout the county had two ballot scanning machines. The information from each scanner ends up on a thumb drive, and that info is read off the drive to get the master vote total election night.

Though the bags that carry all of the election materials from the precincts to the courthouse for tallying were marked if they had two thumb drives, someone failed to remove one of the two North Bay precinct drives from the bag Tuesday night. That mistake was discovered Wednesday afternoon as the election commission verified the affidavits and reconciled the election books and other materials.

Related, from Motherboard today:

For years, U.S. election officials and voting machine vendors have insisted that critical election systems are never connected to the internet and therefore can’t be hacked.

But a group of election security experts have found what they believe to be nearly three dozen backend election systems in 10 states connected to the internet over the last year, including some in critical swing states. These include systems in nine Wisconsin counties, in four Michigan counties, and in seven Florida counties—all states that are perennial battlegrounds in presidential elections.

"Two NC Republicans say they accidentally asked the Supreme Court to end gerrymandering"

NO:

That means Price is now the only one of North Carolina’s 15 members of Congress who remains involved in the anti-gerrymandering efforts at the Supreme Court. The Chapel Hill lawmaker’s office confirmed Friday that he didn’t sign his name accidentally.

“Yes, we absolutely meant to sign the brief and have no intentions of dropping our support,” said Sawyer Hackett, Price’s spokesperson.