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In his 34 years working in elections, Wesley Wilcox had never experienced what happened to him just a couple of weeks ago. A woman who said she was involved with the conspiracy theory group True the Vote came to his office with a list of names about 2,500 entries long, spanning about 800 printed pages.
As Wilcox looked through a sample of the 2,500 names that were challenged in Marion County, he told HuffPost, he couldn’t find a single valid challenge. Instead, the challenges had been filed against a mix of legitimate, eligible voters; voters who simply shared common names like “David Martin” or “Rebecca Bennet”; and names that Wilcox had already removed from the voter rolls himself ages ago, either because the voter had died or moved out of the county.
But experts and election officials who spoke to HuffPost said voters should confirm their registration status now — before the November election season heats up — just to be safe. The vast majority of challenges were irrelevant, he said, as they applied to people county officials had already put on the “inactive” voter list. What’s more, the challenges largely didn’t meet the requirement in Texas law for “personal knowledge” of the relevant challenge to the voter’s eligibility, Davis said, nor are most of the challenges sworn statements, which need to be made before an authorized person such as a notary.
ERIC’s membership peaked in 2022 when 34 states were part of the compact. But ERIC is yet another victim of theThat’s because, in addition to helping maintain voter rolls, ERIC also requires member states to take steps to register eligible voters.
“We’ve got all we can say grace over just doing what we’re required to do, so someone dropping 2,500 on us is a recipe for, ‘Hey, we’re just not going to have the capacity to get it done,’” Wilcox said, noting that the lengthy list of names reminded him of another trend — inundating election offices
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