Challenges in key state aren’t valid, says ACLU, and appear to be mass effort through mail-merge process

Summary

In Pennsylvania, a key battleground state, over 4,000 overseas ballots were challenged across 14 counties, targeting voters like Mariam Larson, a longtime mail-in voter from Canada.

Challenges allege non-residency for voters not in the military, yet federal law permits citizens abroad to vote in federal elections. The ACLU argues these challenges are invalid and mass-produced, urging counties to dismiss them quickly.

Some counties have received these challenges, filed by the Election Research Institute, despite similar lawsuits failing. The Election Research Institute is led by Heather Honey, a prominent activist who has spread false claims about elections.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    18 hours ago

    The Election Research Institute is led by Heather Honey, a prominent activist who has spread false claims about elections.

    This is the game. Challenge everything as much as possible. Even if very little of it sticks, two big things have will have happened:

    1. Some number of actual votes will have been invalidated – often from groups more likely to vote blue.

    2. The same groups making the challenges can claim that the multitude of challenges are themselves evidence of problems with the electoral system. (This should be impossible, but it seems to be a common tactic when googling from your armchair counts as “research”.)

    • tb_@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago
      1. Contested votes will be counted later, making Trump’s early count appear proportionally bigger which will give even more “reason” for claiming fraud when Kamala suddenly ticks up.