CHICAGO (AP) – The National Republican Committee launched a massive effort on Tuesday to probe the registration lists of voters at the middle of a wider strategy to grasp the rollers of voters to question the integrity of the elections.
RNC has sent requests for public files requesting documents related to the maintenance of the list of electoral reports to the main electoral officials in 48 states and in the Columbia district, claiming that the public should know how the states abolish non-eligible electoral reports, including the dead and non-citizens.
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This decision came the same day that President Donald Trump took Balayage executive action The search for major changes in the American elections, in particular requiring documentary evidence of citizenship to register to vote in the federal elections. He also coincides with current disinformation stories about non-citizens and voting deaths, including cases are extremely rare and are largely captured and prosecuted When it happens.
“Voters have the right to know that their states properly maintain the roles of voters and act quickly to clean the registration lists of voters by removing non -eligible voters,” said RNC president Michael Whatley, in a press release.
The national law on the registration of voters already obliges states to take measures to maintain precise and current registration lists.
Since the 2020 elections, conservative activists have seized False allegations of generalized fraud as a justification to examine the work of electoral officials To maintain voter lists. County elections officials have declared to be flooded With requests for public files that consume the time of workers, often because they try to prepare for the elections.
In 2024, six out of 10 local electoral managers responding to an investigation by the Portland State University elections and information center agreed with the declaration that “the demands for heavily unduly hampered my ability to exercise my functions”.
There have been attempts to challenge a large number of individual voters according to a defective analysis. States have many ways to identify voters who died or have moved, including death deaths and legal files to ensure that the list of eligible voters and their addresses are as precise and up to date as possible.
Twenty-four states are also part of a bipartite and multi-state effort to help them maintain specific voter lists. It was a larger group, but nine states led by the GOP left the electronic recording information center, known as Eric, two years ago as conservatives, raised questions about its funding and its objective.
Over the past two years, Eric has provided members for 1,040 reports identifying 8.2 million voter files that were probably obsolete, according to research presented at a meeting earlier this year for elections. The data included the deceased voters, moved to a state or another state and double the inscriptions.
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