cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9143573
Voters eligible to cast ballots are already being swept up in a grassroots effort to purge the nation’s registration rolls ahead of the 2024 presidential election, a CBS News investigation has found.
Fueled by doubts about the 2020 election, an army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists, looking for registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges — questioning the registrations of thousands of Americans.
The undertaking, which includes the involvement of a lawyer tied to former President Trump’s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, tends to affect minority or younger voters who may be statistically more likely to vote Democrat, according to local election officials.
There needs to be a way to establish standing to challenge voter elligibility. It can’t just be “people with too much free time.”
Unless you work for the Secretary of State office and it’s your JOB to determine eligibility, you shouldn’t be able to challenge a goddamned thing.
The problem is that the Secretary of State in a lot of these states are complicit.
And if your voter eligibility gets challenged they should inform you, you shouldn’t have to find out yourself
Throw it on the massive pile of election reforms that are desperately needed but will never happen because it will lessen the power of neoliberals and the far-right.
Every person over the age of 18 should be eligible to vote in their district and “moved” or “died” should be the only mechanism for removing a voter from the roll.
America also needs ranked choice voting, the removal of electoral college and protections against gerrymandering (such as multi member districts).
Unfortunately any change that is suggested breeds a new reactionary cult that for some reason we’re supposed to politely listen to as they delay progress forever.