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Mismatches Between Voter-Registration Data and Other Government Data

Robert Timothy Reagan
August 23, 2023

Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda v. Kemp (Eleanor L. Ross, N.D. Ga. 1:18-cv-4727)
A federal complaint challenged a statute that required the name on a voter-registration form to exactly match—character and space and hyphen for character and space and hyphen—how the name appeared in other government records. The complaint also challenged the flagging of voter-registration applications as potentially from noncitizens just because the applicants had not yet become citizens when they received their driver’s licenses. One week after a motion for a preliminary injunction was filed and eleven days before a general election, the judge specified how voters could prove their citizenship and vote if their voter registrations had not become final because of citizenship questions.
Subject: Registration procedures. Topics: Registration procedures; citizenship; signature matching; laches; provisional ballots; Help America Vote Act (HAVA).

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.