Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Friday he would remove over 100,000 names from state electoral rolls. Raffensperger said most of the names were associated with a change of address or from residences where election mail was returned to the sender. The constituency Fair Fight Action warns that Raffensperger admitted mistakes in the last electoral roll clean in Georgia, which almost deprived 22,000 people of the right to vote. This follows Georgia’s passage in March of a comprehensive electoral bill that critics have cited as the worst voter suppression bill since the Jim Crow era. Since then, Republican officials across Georgia have removed at least 10 district election officials – most of them Democrats and about half of them colored. In similar news, the U.S. Senate will vote on Tuesday on the comprehensive For the People Act, which Republicans are expected to oppose.
