The eligibility of tens of thousands of Georgia voters is being challenged ahead of the midterm election on Nov. 8, with Cobb County and Chatham County election boards the latest to reject attempts to remove people from the registrar’s rolls.
On Monday, the election boards in the Atlanta suburbs and Savannah community rejected more than 1,500 eligibility challenges launched against registered voters. The mass voter challenges typically filed by Republicans cropped up in the weeks following the 2020 presidential election in which former President Donald Trump’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden included defeats in swing states like Georgia and Michigan. Prior to the January 2021 Senate runoff elections in Georgia, right-wing group True the Vote compiled a list of 364,000 voters to challenge.
Marietta resident Eugene Williams was one of the residents on Monday who challenged the status of 1,350 Cobb voters without an identifiable address.
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