ATLANTA — Rampant attempts to challenge voters’ eligibility, a cause taken up by Republican activists using Georgia’s elections law, could soon be overhauled by lawmakers.
Voting rights advocates are seeking safeguards to protect against disenfranchisement of legitimate voters, while supporters of the system want even greater ability to disqualify individuals who they suspect might have moved away based on their mailing addresses.
Since Georgia’s 2021 voting law allowed anyone to challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of other voters, over 92,000 registrations were contested last year, according to an accounting by the voting organization Fair Fight Action. County election boards upheld about 5,800 of the challenges.
