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Re: 7 Key Takeaways from the 2023 Anti-Voter Playbook; Implications for 2024

Throughout 2023, far-right lawmakers and conspiracy-fueled election deniers have been honing suppressive tactics and laying the groundwork to support anti-voter efforts in the 2024 election
cycle. 

Georgia continues to serve as the testing ground for a growing, nationally coordinated effort to push access to the ballot as far out of reach as possible — particularly for Black, brown, and young voters.

Right-wing policymakers and anti-voter extremists used the 2023 legislative session and election cycle to refine their playbook of silencing and intimidating voters while overwhelming election workers, all in a large-scale effort built on sowing doubt about the electoral process. 

As we approach the 2024 election cycle, it’s increasingly clear that the Anti-Voter Playbook is three-pronged: restrict voter access, attack election administration, and subvert the will of voters.

Here are our top takeaways:

Local election administrators are grappling with a barrage of unfunded mandates & lack of investment from the state. When combined with Georgia’s failure to invest in elections administration broadly and the dramatic expansion of voter challenges enabled by SB 202, a lack of clear guidelines from the State Elections Board (SEB) has created mounting difficulties for election workers that will ultimately impact voters.
Mass voter challenges continue in Georgia, and are an emerging anti-voter trend. SB 202 emboldened conspiracy theorists, allowing any individual to challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of voters in their county and disproportionately impacting Black, young, and likely Democratic voters.
Far-right activists are now looking to private software companies, like EagleAI, to make mass voter challenges even easier. EagleAI pitches itself as a tool that election boards can use to purge voters and that private individuals can use to challenge voter registrations — further opening the door for erroneous, unsupported challenges to untold thousands of lawful voters.
Georgia’s anti-voter law SB 202 continues to serve as a template for omnibus voter suppression legislation in other states. Since the 2021 passage of SB 202, at least 41 bills have been enacted in more than 25 states with similar anti-voter provisions.
Efforts to prevent the certification of small-scale elections continue to ramp up, portending chaos for 2024. While certification in Georgia should have been a breeze given the comparatively smaller Voting Eligible Population casting ballots with significantly lower turnout levels in 2023, that was far from the case.
Georgia Republicans continue to flout federal protections against racial gerrymandering with new maps that dilute Black voting power. Instead of following the judge’s order to remedy the violation and deliver fair maps, the state legislature convened for a special session where they once again prioritized partisan power-clinging over accurately representing the diversity of Georgia voters in the General Assembly.
Impacts of SB 202 on voter access in Georgia remain glaring, with a major uptick in vote-by-mail application rejection rates raising alarms for 2024. From mass challenges to restrictions on mail voting to unfunded mandates burdening election administration, the harmful impacts of anti-voter bill SB 202 continued in 2023.
Fair Fight will continue working to protect the freedom to vote by…

Supporting pro-democracy champions in the 2024 elections and beyond.
Contacting voters who’ve been affected by mass voter purges and helping them maintain or reinstate their registrations.
Equipping voters with the educational materials they need to confirm they’re registered, find their polling place or dropbox, cast their ballot, and have it counted.
Running online ads to reach new voters and support voter turnout efforts.
Mobilizing Democracy Watch volunteers to attend Board of Elections meetings and help cultivate pro-voter leadership on those bodies.
And more!
It’s clear that it will take a full-scale organizing effort to push back against anti-voter attacks and ensure free and fair elections in 2024 — and we need every Fair Fight supporter by our side to get it done.


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