PoliticsVoters 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. – Conservative activists in Georgia and some other states are quietly pushing a way to remove names from the voting rolls without filing a formal legal challenge.
The effort is one prong of a wide-ranging national effort coordinated by Donald Trump allies to take names from rolls. County officials routinely remove voters who are dead, convicted of felonies, mentally incompetent or no longer living in Georgia, using lists provided by the secretary of state's office.
Richards said in a Wednesday interview that people using his software are citizen volunteers, likening the work of finding ineligible voters to picking up roadside trash.In online meetings and in-person appearances over the past year, Richards has pushed EagleAI as a sophisticated platform to cleanse dirty voter lists. The Associated Press found the platform is funded and used by supporters of Trump, some of whom worked to overturn the 2020 vote, and entwined with the Republican’s campaign.
Richards' hometown election board in Columbia County agreed in December to buy EagleAI software, the only Georgia government known to have done so.