More than two-thirds of the 37,000 voter-registration challenges submitted by Donald Trump supporters in Gwinnett County, Georgia, have been rejected or withdrawn, according to county spokeswoman Deborah Tuff.
The challenges, deposited at the county elections office in eight boxes on Aug. 29, were assembled by a group backed by former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Patrick Byrne, former chief executive officer of Overstock.com. The pair have been pushing the former president’s unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
More than 64,000 registration challenges have been filed to county elections offices in Georgia this year. They seek to either disqualify voters ahead of the Nov. 8 election or to make it more difficult for them to cast ballots. Georgia has two closely watched races this year, for the U.S. Senate and governor. Gwinnett County, in the Atlanta metropolitan area, is a former Republican stronghold that has been reliably Democratic since 2016.
