A Texas voting rights group is working with Georgia Republicans to file voter challenges to more than 364,000 people who may have moved, potentially disqualifying them from voting in the state’s Senate runoff election.
The group True the Vote announced Thursday that it filed 364,541 voter challenges on behalf of voters in all 159 Georgia counties.
The group said its analysis of the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address System and the Georgia voter registry found that “124,114 registered voters no longer reside in the counties of record” and another 240,427 no longer reside in the state at all.
The group has filed challenges in every Georgia county and gained momentum outside of Atlanta in Forsyth County and Muscogee County in Columbus – where they have jointly filed challenges to force more than 9,000 voters to use provisional ballots at the polls and prove their residency, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Nearly 2.1 million people have cast ballots in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election, which will determine whether Democrats can wrest control of the Senate, according to data released by the state Thursday.
Data from the state show that more than a quarter of the state’s registered voters have cast their ballots early or by mail, suggesting this will be a high turnout for the Senate race. About 4 million Georgians voted early in the November general election.
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