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To: Ron who wrote (255)	8/27/2024 1:44:39 PM
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Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials The RNC and other GOP officials say North Carolina allowed a quarter of a million people to register to vote improperly. State officials say that's false, adding that the proposed GOP solution would violate federal law. Posted 3:05 p.m. Yesterday - Updated 3:57 p.m. Yesterday State and national Republican Party leaders are suing the State Board of Elections again, days after the board criticized GOP leaders for filing a lawsuit based on what the board called "categorically false" allegations about the potential for voter fraud. Monday's complaint is the second lawsuit making election integrity-related claims that GOP leaders say call into question whether large numbers of immigrants are illegally voting in North Carolina — echoing false claims former President Donald Trump made in the 2016 and 2020 elections. State elections officials say the GOP's claims are based on a skewed version of the facts, and that the lawsuit's proposed solution is itself illegal. [....] A spokesman for the elections board told WRAL that the solution the lawsuit is seeking, to remove those voters from the rolls, is illegal because it's now so close to the election. Mail-in ballots will start going out to voters in September, and early voting starts in October. The elections board acknowledges some issues in the database of voter information but says the GOP lawsuit exaggerates and misunderstands those issues. Regardless, elections board spokesman Pat Gannon said, those issues have been public knowledge for months now — and yet the GOP waited to file its lawsuit until several weeks after the passing of the deadline to purge voters from the rolls. "The lawsuit is asking for a rapid-fire voter removal program that violates federal law," Gannon said. The Republican Party leaders claim in their lawsuit that some of the people in the database without matching information could be immigrants illegally registered to vote, although it offers no evidence of such cases. It adds that the state elections board's lack of action to purge the voters so far "eviscerates confidence in North Carolina’s elections" and calls into question the state's commitment to fair elections. [....] As for the GOP lawsuit over alleged HAVA violations, Gannon added that even if someone did slip through the cracks and register to vote under a fake name by never providing a driver's license or social security number, there's another failsafe in place: North Carolina's voter ID laws, which will require voters to show proof of identification when they go to the polls this year. "In any event, all these voters will be asked to show photo ID again when they vote this year," Gannon said. State law does allow some exemptions under which voters could cast a ballot without ID. Any such requests for exemptions will be investigated by the voter's bipartisan county elections board. The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a Durham-based civil rights group, criticized the recent lawsuits as a cynical ploy by Republicans to set the stage for Trump and other Republicans to try once against to overturn the results of the election if he loses. In a statement co-signed by local Hispanic and Asian political advocacy groups, they accused the Republican Party of "an insidious national effort to spread anti-immigrant conspiracy theories in the hopes of short-term political gain," which it said this lawsuit is only one small part of. "The RNC is not filing these lawsuits because they think they will win; they are filing these lawsuits despite knowing they will lose," the groups wrote. "The RNC intends to use those losses to amplify baseless conspiracy theories about how the election is being stolen and the courts will not stop it. This lawsuit is part and parcel of that effort — designed to undermine confidence in North Carolina elections." more at wral.com