So, a non-citizen votes, puts his name and address on the registration form and falsely claims to be a citizen. Felony and possible deportation. Why would they jeopardize their stay in the US?
Georgia just checked their voter rolls for non-citizens who voted. Out of 8.2 million votes, 9 were non-citizen voters.
So those nine you mention do not include the thousands still on the rolls who are no longer eligible for not even living in Georgia among other things .
Non-eligibles that your team is fighting tooth and nail to keep on the rolls by attempting to bankrupt anyone attempting to police the system.
Politics
Big Georgia county to start charging some costs to people who challenge the eligibility of voters
The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registrations voted 4-1 on Tuesday to adopt the rule.
Credit: AP
(AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
Author: Associated Press
Published: 2:02 PM EDT August 15, 2024
Updated: 2:02 PM EDT August 15, 2024
ATLANTA — An election board in one of Georgia's largest counties has voted to start charging people who challenge the eligibility of voters for the cost of notifying the challenged voters.
The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registrations voted 4-1 on Tuesday to adopt the rule. Debbie Fisher, a Republican member of the board, was the only vote against the rule.
Republican activists are challenging thousands of voters in Georgia as part a
wide-ranging national effort coordinated by
Donald Trump's allies to take names off voting rolls. Most of the people they are targeting have moved away from their old address, and the activists argue that letting those names stay on the rolls invites fraud. But Democrats and liberal voting rights activists argue Republicans are challenging voters either to remove Democrats
or to sow doubt about the accuracy of elections in advance of 2024 presidential voting.
Democrats have been pushing to start charging for each challenge filed, in part as an effort to deter people from targeting hundred or thousands of voters using software programs such as EagleAI or IV3 that facilitate mass challenges. A 2021 Georgia law specifically says one person can challenge an
unlimited number of voters in their own county.
In suburban Atlanta's Cobb County, a onetime Republican bastion that now produces Democratic majorities, the board voted only to charge for the cost of printing the challenge notice and for postage to mail it, likely to be less than a dollar per challenge. But that could add up. Cobb County Elections Director Tate Fall has estimated that it cost about $1,600 to mail out notices from one batch of 2,472 challenges filed last month.
Democrats have also wanted counties to charge challengers for staff time to research and process challenges. But Daniel White, a lawyer for the board, said Tuesday that he concluded that the board couldn't do that unless state law is changed to grant specific authorization. However, he said he concluded the board has the inherent power to charge for sending notices, in the same way a court has the inherent power to charge someone for serving notice of a lawsuit on the defendants.
“If you’re talking about 3,000 voters being challenged and notice having to go out to 3,000 voters being challenged, that really increases your costs," White said.
But Republicans opposed the measure. Fisher called it “egregious" and “just wrong” to charge people for exercising their challenge rights.
Cobb County Republican Party Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs said the board is failing to do its job of ensuring clean voter rolls, while challengers are stepping in to help.
“When the Board of Elections is trying to charge people for doing the job they should be doing, that’s a disgrace," Grubbs said.