ATLANTA — Bearing long lists of voters' names, a determined group of Republicans is asking local election boards to cancel thousands of Georgia voter registrations, using a new power bestowed by the state's voting law.
These amateur operatives are trying to purge the registrations of people who they suspect have moved away based on voter lists, address records or property tax documents.
They're relying on Georgia's law passed last year in the wake of Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 election that allows any voter to challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of their neighbors, an effort that's taking place outside the routine government-run process of removing people who have moved or died.
