States are required to keep their voter rolls clear of ineligible voters. In Georgia, voters can challenge the eligibility of another voter — a useful practice when the state isn’t doing the required list maintenance. But the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration adopted a rule Tuesday requiring people who challenge a potentially ineligible voter to pay to notify that voter.
The 4-1 vote — in which Republican Debbie Fisher was the sole opposition vote — forces challengers to pay for the “cost of printing the challenge notice and for the postage to mail it,” ABC News reported. The rule has not yet been publicly posted.
Cobb County Republican Chairwoman Salleigh Grubbs called the rule “ridiculous” in a statement to The Federalist.
“It’s ridiculous to charge for voter challenges,” Grubbs said. “They are charging the public when they are responsible for doing it and we already pay taxes for keeping the rolls clean!”
State law authorizes voters to “challenge the eligibility of another voter if they suspect that person no longer lives in the county,” according to Just The News.
Democrats have frequently targeted election integrity activists in the Peach State for trying to ensure that voter rolls are clean and accurate. A Barack Obama-appointed judge ruled in January that challenging potentially ineligible voters is legal after a left-wing nonprofit-backed lawsuit by failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams attempted to end that option. The suit was spurred after True The Vote (TTV) announced plans in 2020 to
