Georgia Promised to Fix How Voter Challenges Are Handled. A New Law Could Make the Problem Worse.
By Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica
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Ten months after Georgia officials said they would take steps to ensure that counties were correctly handling massive numbers of challenges to voter registrations, neither the secretary of state's office nor the State Election Board has done so.
In July 2023, ProPublica reported that election officials in multiple Georgia counties were handling citizens' challenges to voter registrations in different ways, with some potentially violating the National Voter Registration Act.
Instead ...