ACLU: Georgia Wrongly Purged 200K From Voter Rolls

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:

The ACLU of Georgia this morning has released a report that says a 2019 purge of voters from the state’s registration database improperly removed nearly 200,000 on the grounds that they had moved – when they had not.

The report is the work of the Palast Investigative Fund, a New York-based nonprofit headed by Greg Palast, an investigative journalist with a history of looking into state voting purges – dating to Florida in 2003. Of 313,243 voters culled last year, the Palast report alleges that 198,351 were improperly expunged.

Jordan Fuchs, deputy to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, sent a response that included this: “It is unfortunate that the ACLU hired a known Stacey Abrams shill to conduct research especially when there are so many credible options on the left to hire.”

The ACLU of Georgia this morning has released a report that says a 2019 purge of voters from the state’s registration database improperly removed nearly 200,000 on the grounds that they had moved – when they had not. https://t.co/kAHBvLVQQz

— AJC (@ajc) September 2, 2020

Expert firms found that 63.3% of voters removed from Georgia voter rolls last December had not moved and were purged in error.

We asked the Georgia secretary of state’s office for records related to that voter roll purge as well as polling place relocations and closures. https://t.co/azlOh2Ssoy

— American Oversight (@weareoversight) September 2, 2020