Police officers in Texas, senior citizens at a nursing home in Pennsylvania and people who had registered to vote at a Marine base in California.

“Election officials across the country have been inundated with dubious complaints about inaccurate voter rolls, which have wasted government resources and sapped taxpayer money spent reviewing lists of registered voters that officials say are already care fully maintained…”

“One of the main drivers of the fruitless challenges is a conservative Texas-based nonprofit group called True the Vote, an election-monitoring organization that has long peddled debunked voter-fraud theories.”

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    “A lot of these people are people of goodwill. They have just been fed a constant diet of lies,” said David Becker, founder of the nonprofit Center for Election Innovation & Research, who added that one of the “great ironies” is that “the voter lists are more accurate than they have ever been” because of modern data-sharing technology.

    I can see why some of these people, subjectively, think they are acting with “good will.”

    But at what point is someone who is willfully ignorant of truth and common sense, and actively refusing to acknowledge it, objectively not exercising “good will”? I think most of these zealots are past that point, and explicitly harassing voters and election departments.