Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Brad Raffensperger’s Voter Registrations Targeted in Georgia’s New Online Portal
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Days after Georgia Democrats warned that the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations could be abused, officials have confirmed misuse attempts — including efforts to cancel the registrations of prominent Republicans.
  • Em Adespoton
    32·
    4 months ago

    He said that additional protections for less high-profile voters include warnings on the portal that abusing it could be a felony,

    …if you’re a US citizen…

    features built into the website to prevent a single user from submitting multiple cancellations,

    …from a single IP and browser window…

    reviews of requests by county election workers

    …who will likely spot people who they know or who are registered for their party only…

    and a postcard that alerts voters whose registration is canceled.

    …which won’t do much if their registration is canceled close enough to the election that they aren’t notified in time to actually get re-registered.

    He said those safeguards make it extremely difficult to successfully cancel someone else’s voter registration.

    …meanwhile, they’ve published the information required to cancel voter registration for every registered voter in the state.

    • TastehWaffleZ@lemmy.world
      171·
      4 months ago

      All those in addition to

      “The state must send mail to those who appear to have moved. If the people don’t respond, they are moved to inactive status. But they can still vote and their registration isn’t removed unless they don’t vote in the next two federal general elections.”

      It’s still an insanely dumb idea but not as exploitable as I initially thought.

      • Em Adespoton
        81·
        4 months ago

        That one actually seems reasonable to me. Relatively difficult to abuse in both directions.

    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      Well certainly that warning comes with certain punishment, right?

      The portal warns users that impersonating someone to cancel a voter registration is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Hassinger said the Secretary of State’s Office was consulting with in-house legal experts about whether to seek charges for the individuals who had attempted to cancel Raffensperger’s and Greene’s registrations.

      Oh, nm.

      "We want to protect voters’ personally identifiable information,” Hassinger said. “That’s part of running secure elections, and that’s the job that we take very seriously.”

      Doubt.

  • cybervseas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    He said that additional protections for less high-profile voters include warnings on the portal that abusing it could be a felony, features built into the website to prevent a single user from submitting multiple cancellations, reviews of requests by county election workers and a postcard that alerts voters whose registration is canceled.

    So “don’t do this because it’s wrong”. If someone buys info on the dark web it’s skins easy enough to unregister all the people in Cobb county and swing the election.

  • astanix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    I love that one of the protections for “lower profile” voters is a earning in the site that misusing the site could be a felony.