President Trump’s suggestion that people vote twice could make voters vulnerable to being accused of a crime and lead to longer lines and confusion at the polls, said former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
“What’s most worrisome to me is that people who … were not the voters he was trying to encourage but are low-information about how the process works — which is most Americans — that you’re going to have good-intentioned people who are voting for the first time, who were drawn to this process because they want to do what’s right, who are going to be ... disproportionately and discriminatorily treated,” Abrams said in an interview with Yahoo News.
“The State Board office strongly discourages people from showing up at the polls on Election Day to check whether their absentee ballot was counted. That is not necessary, and it would lead to longer lines and the possibility of spreading COVID-19,” Brinson Bell said. That definition includes any form of difficulty voting, and somewhat avoids the question of whether obstacles to voting have been erected with discriminatory intent.
Prior to 2013, many Republican-controlled state legislatures had begun to pass voter ID laws aimed at stopping voters from fraudulently impersonating someone else to vote multiple times. Yet the past 20 years have seen little evidence of voter impersonation, despite zealous attempts to find it. And in some states, the specific rules on which IDs are valid for voting have had every appearance of having the intent to help certain voters and make it harder for others to vote.
“Inaccurate rolls cause confusion, expense, and disenfranchisement,” wrote Myrna Pérez, deputy director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a voting rights organization at New York University, in a report on election security. “They also create security risks because they are more vulnerable than clean rolls to bad actors trying to exploit out-of-date entries .”
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