Last week we initiated an historic effort to challenge potentially ineligible voter registrations ahead of Election Day on Jan. 5.
TRUE THE VOTE OFFERS LEGAL SUPPORT TO GEORGIA COUNTIES THAT STAND UP TO LEFT'S MISINFORMATION AND INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN
Friends -
As expected, the Left didn’t wait long to try and stop our efforts to ensure a free and fair election in the Georgia runoffs. As you all know, last week we initiated an historic effort to challenge potentially ineligible voter registrations ahead of Election Day on Jan. 5. Within 48 hours we learned that leftist election lawyer Marc Elias had issued his own threat to
Georgia’s Election Boards, misleading them to believe that the Elector Challenges are not legal and threatening legal action to any boards who move forward with the challenges.
Well, we at True the Vote know better. We will not be intimidated and we will not be silenced. That is why we are offering to support any legal action that Georgia Election Boards may have to take to defend their ability to follow the law. I want to share the letter – included below – that we sent them this week along with a clear explanation of the legal grounds behind our Elector Challenge. In the short time that True the Vote has been on the ground in Georgia, the work hasn’t stopped. On top of our historic Elector Challenge, we have successfully partnered with the Georgia GOP on their election integrity and training efforts (we sought a similar partnership with the Georgia Democratic Party, but have yet to hear back).
Friends, the truth and the law are on our side. Thank you for being with us in this fight. Our work here in Georgia is only the beginning of our efforts nationwide to restore faith and confidence in our election system.
Onward,
- The True the Vote Team
December 21, 2020
VIA EMAIL
To Georgia County Election Boards:
Thank you for the ongoing work you’re doing toward our shared goal of carrying out the Senate runoff election in a way that complies with Georgia law and promotes faith in the outcome. Our organization, True the Vote, has worked in all 159 counties in the state to ensure that every legal vote counts and every illegal vote is discovered. Using databases including the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address file, we have assisted Georgia citizens with voter challenges in cases where there is probable cause to believe that the person has moved out of the county where they are registered.
We are aware that the ACLU and the Perkins-Coie law firm have provided several counties with misleading information about the voter challenges, and we want to correct the record, as well as assure that we will support the legal efforts of any county that follows Georgia law by reviewing the
status of challenged voters. Attached is a letter we requested from our General Counsel, Jim Bopp, with The Bopp Law Firm, to more fully detail the legal grounds support the elector challenges.
As our attorneys confirm through this correspondence, the elector challenges apply solely to eligibility to vote in the Jan. 5 runoff election. This process will not result in any voters being removed from the rolls, and will not deny the right to vote of any legal voter. A challenged voter
can vote a challenged ballot, with that vote counted once eligibility is confirmed.
The challenges provided used the National Change of Address database, and were further refined through the use of other commercially available sources, to identify records that indicated a permanent change in residence. The challenges do demonstrate probable cause that a voter has moved away
from the address at which they are registered to vote. Georgia hasn’t crosschecked its rolls with the National Change of Address database since 2019. Given estimates that 11 percent of Americans move every year, there’s high probability that many people are registered in Georgia at addresses where they no longer live. These elector challenges are a method provided for under Georgia to protect the integrity of the voter rolls.
It’s prudent to carry out these challenges now. The failure of county election boards to comply with Georgia law and accept the challenges before them risks invalidating the runoff election, which would require another. We look forward to working with you to complete a successful election where every Georgian can have faith in the system and believe the outcome reflects the will of legal voters.
True the Vote is a nonpartisan organization recognized under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, Federal Tax ID # 27-2860095. Contributions or gifts to True the Vote are tax-deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes to the fullest extent permitted by law.
