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Despite its name, the software does not employ artificial intelligence, and though it is pronounced "eagle eye", its creator denied it was named after Operation Eagle Eye, a 1960s Republican Party voter suppression effort. [148] [149] As of July 2024, at least one county in Georgia signed a contract to use EagleAI for voter roll maintenance. [141]
Voter suppression in the United States consists of various legal and illegal efforts to prevent eligible citizens from exercising their right to vote. Such voter suppression efforts vary by state, local government, precinct, and election. Voter suppression has historically been used for racial, economic, gender, age and disability discrimination.
For some, the phrase "voter suppression" may invoke images of protesting crowds, like those at early voting sites in Virginia last month, or other forms of harassment. Indeed, Trump's calls for ...
Critics, including former House Representative Beto O'Rourke, have decried the efforts as "voter suppression". [235] [236] The Texas Democratic Party called the bills an "assault on voting rights". [237] On July 12, 2021, at least 59 Democratic lawmakers left the state to prevent Republicans from having quorum to act on their legislation. [238]
Mass voter challenges have been around for a long time, but they’ve become more common following former President Trump’s false claims about widespread voter fraud in the last presidential ...
But with two weeks of early voting at 50 sites, absentee ballots available for many and hundreds of polling places open on Election Day, it’s not voter suppression to move a few locations.
Voter suppression are tactics used to discourage or prevent specific groups of people from voting or registering to vote. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting behavior by changing the opinions of potential voters through persuasion and organization, activating otherwise inactive ...
"The voter purges here are textbook examples of attempted voter suppression and intimidation," he said. "Those behind the false allegations that saturate the commonwealth's case seek to frighten ...