They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy could mean electors won’t be summoned in advance to defend their voting rights and the identities of those seeking to purge voters might not be routinely public.

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    My fellow person. Friend of mine in Nashville has been purged three times 2018, 2020, and 2022. Because they thought his insanely common name was dead. No notice, no letter, no info, just silent gone from voting and every year without fail since 2018, he has to head downtown to let them know that he is distinctly not dead.

    And today is the day he’ll head downtown to “double check” that he has not yet again been purged because if he doesn’t, he’ll miss the local elections that happen on August 1st.

    They’re not just asking for random people to be taken off

    Yes. That’s how this works. They are indeed taking random people off the rolls. I’m glad this hasn’t randomly happen to you and I am thankful that this only happen to me once in 2016. But yeah, buddy. It’s just “random” grab bag of who they think needs to be purged. I get it, you haven’t had it happen to you, so you think it’s one way, but buddy, the people who do the purging are just straight up bad at their jobs. And they don’t provide any kind of logic or reason on why they removed any specific person and there’s zero legal recourse to hold them accountable.

    Now what’s worse. Imagine if you’re someone who doesn’t have the time to head down to the election office every two years because you’re just trying to make ends meet. The randomness is what they’re banking on getting some of the folks who don’t have time to double check their status.

    Buddy, I just… I’m just glad this hasn’t happened to you. But you’re talking out your butt on this “isn’t random people”.

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      They’re not just asking for random people to be taken off

      Yes. That’s how this works. They are indeed taking random people off the rolls.

      No, he’s right: they’re not taking “random” people off the rolls; they’re choosing who to challenge based on specific characteristics.