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Conservative groups are pushing to clean voter rolls. Others see an effort to sow election distrust
The Associated Press ^ | July 13, 2024 | BY JULIE CARR SMYTH

Posted on 07/13/2024 9:41:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Conservative groups are systematically attempting to challenge the legitimacy of large numbers of voter registrations across the country before the presidential election.

The strategy is part of a wider effort raising questions about the integrity of this year’s election as former President Donald Trump repeatedly claims without evidence that his opponents are trying to cheat.

The voter roll tactics include mass door-knocking campaigns, using special software designed to identify voters whose eligibility could be challenged and a crush of lawsuits. Some of those have been brought by the Republican National Committee, which hosts the GOP’s national convention this coming week.

Several Republican secretaries of state are combing through voter lists on their own, including in Ohio and Tennessee, or to comply with aggressive new state voting laws.

Those behind the reviews cast them as good government endeavors intended to help local election offices clean up the rolls. Voting rights groups and Democrats believe the effort aims to shake faith in the results of the 2024 election and lay the legal groundwork to challenge the results.

Here is a look at what’s happening around voter roll challenges:

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballots; election2024; fraud; juliecarrsmyth; vote
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1 posted on 07/13/2024 9:41:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP - the worst of the worst.


2 posted on 07/13/2024 9:42:57 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“without evidence” . . . hock and spit!!!!!!!


3 posted on 07/13/2024 9:44:50 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Empty all voter rolls and require everyone to re-register with required state ID and voter registration card.

Have an national instant voter check to make sure that the individual isn’t registered to vote anywhere else.

Require showing state ID and voter registration card when you vote.


4 posted on 07/13/2024 9:44:58 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: RatRipper

It looks like the AP is using the legal definition of evidence. This meaning is a document or other item that has been accepted by a judge into a court case in a court of law. Using this definition …. if there is no court case, then there is no “evidence”. This is certainly NOT the definition most people think of for the word evidence but it is a real definition in the dictionary

It is probably the definition that the Clintons used all the many times they said “there is no evidence”. The fake news media has certainly been using it for four years relating to election fraud in the 2020 election.


5 posted on 07/13/2024 9:48:01 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Julie Carr Smyth thinks it’s wrong for a democracy (Republic) to show careful diligence to its citizens rolls.

She is for what, then? Cheating, or anyone with a warm a$$ voting?

Or is AP just a haven for democrat party operatives masking as journalists?

(I know the answer to that rhetorical question, of course!)


6 posted on 07/13/2024 9:48:45 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well then clean the dang rolls and sow some trust in the election.


7 posted on 07/13/2024 9:51:13 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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The vast majority of Americans support voter ID laws.


8 posted on 07/13/2024 9:52:39 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“....Donald Trump repeatedly claims without evidence that his opponents are trying to cheat......”

Obviously this reporter is either not paying attention ...... or is so biased that he refuses to face the truth.


9 posted on 07/13/2024 9:55:15 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The media claims “without evidence” that they are unbiased.

OR

The media “falsely” claims that they are unbiased.

OR

The media makes the “debunked” claim that they are unbiased.

They just can’t resist using these catch words that prove that they are biased.

Trump has plenty of evidence and witnesses of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Doxing and lawsuits ensue if they try to present it.


10 posted on 07/13/2024 9:59:04 AM PDT by Blueway
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To: gibsonguy

This is encouraging. It means that said efforts are working.


11 posted on 07/13/2024 10:04:11 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Cleaning the absolutely filthy, corrupted, and untrustworthy voter rolls is breeding distrust.

Got it.


12 posted on 07/13/2024 10:04:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And election mistrust is not merited?


13 posted on 07/13/2024 10:06:25 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“to identify voters whose eligibility could be challenged”

In other words, they have a problem with the way we conservatives feel that death should cause a voter to be ineligible!


14 posted on 07/13/2024 10:08:09 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

sow election distrust?? are you kidding me??? @#$#$#%#@@$$, They have done this right in front of our faces and the republicans turned away


15 posted on 07/13/2024 10:09:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone who opposes cleaning up elections automatically favors cheating. No middle ground.


16 posted on 07/13/2024 10:10:54 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

election distrust SHOULD BE sown!


17 posted on 07/13/2024 10:19:04 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Repeat every ten years.


18 posted on 07/13/2024 10:24:09 AM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

this should be required before every election.


19 posted on 07/13/2024 10:24:42 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I believe every bona fide citizen should have to vote on Election Day and have submerge their hand in indelible ink


20 posted on 07/13/2024 10:24:42 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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