A massive nationwide effort is underway to “clean” voter rolls.
Texas-based non-profit True the Vote is one of the main organizations behind thousands of challenges to voter registrations.
In a statement to CNN, Catherine Engelbrecht, the organization’s founder, said the group seeks to “empower citizens to ensure accurate, secure, and fair elections. … In pursuit of our mission, True the Vote has developed specialized processes, technologies, and methodologies that have been affirmed by experts and courts across the political spectrum.”
The group previously claimed that thousands of Wisconsin ballots had been “illegally trafficked” during the November 2020 election, as reported by The Dallas Express.
“Today, we know it doesn’t take much to swing an election. Many races are decided by less than .5%—which comes down to one out of 100 ballots. Even a small amount of fraudulent ballots can make up that small a margin, which means elections can be manipulated far too easily,” reads the organization’s website. “After widespread irregularities in the 2020 presidential election and numerous reported problems in the 2022 midterms, Americans are justifiably concerned about the integrity of our electoral process.”
“At True the Vote, we believe every legally cast vote must be counted. When we participate in the democratic process, we exercise our fundamental right to self-governance. Elections should be mechanisms to hold politicians accountable and give the American people a voice on the direction of government. That’s why voter fraud and violations of election rules and procedures undermines our ability to be a self-governing people.”
WFAA reports on the organization’s efforts in Denton County, where it is challenging more than 17,000 voter registrations. Here’s the start of the story:
DENTON, Texas — A small group — estimated at fewer than two dozen people — have challenged more than 17,000 voter registrations in Denton County as part of a voter roll examination effort from a group that has filed lawsuits challenging the veracity of 2020 election results, the county elections administrator said Monday.
Denton County Elections Administrator Frank Phillips said his office has received as many as 2,000 challenges in a single day this summer and as many as 5,000 or 6,000 submissions from a single person.
“It was a little crazy,” Phillips said. “I don’t believe I had any four years ago.”
Phillips said the surge in challenges come from people affiliated with a group called “True the Vote,” a Texas-based organization that says it works to safeguard the electoral process. It has challenged the results of the 2020 election in court and then told a judge it could provide no evidence to support its claims.
The voter registration challenges are crowdsourced to people it teaches to use a web application to identify registered voters who may have moved, died or who the group otherwise believe may not be eligible to vote.