Voters depart an election center during primary voting, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Kennesaw, Ga. Conservative activists in Georgia and some other states are using a new software tool as part of a broader effort to scrub voters from the rolls. EagleAI CEO Rick Richards presents his program to find duplicate voter registrations at the Forsyth County Voter Registrar in Cumming, Ga., Friday, June 28, 2024.
The less-formal approach has worked at least once. In suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County, the county removed some voters after a man sent inquiries listing 245 potentially dead people. Most controversially, that law says officials can use as evidence the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address list showing people have moved, although not as the sole reason for removing voters. Opponents slam that list as unreliable.
Activists fueled by Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen say state cleanup efforts are woefully inadequate and inaccuracies invite fraud., a former teacher traveling the country peddling election conspiracy theories, urged Georgians to use software called EagleAI to file challenges this spring.
Over past months, an AP reporter joined online meetings publicized among activists before eventually being asked to leave. The AP also obtained additional meeting videos to glean a behind-the-scenes look at how the software is used in states including Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Nevada and Ohio., a frequent participant, said during one presentation. Mitchell is a GOP election attorney who took part in the call whenRichards called Mitchell’s affiliations “irrelevant.