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The Guardian reports:
Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state's registration rolls, an investigation charges.
Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved - but they actually still live at the address where they are registered.
"Their registration is cancelled. Not pending, not inactive – cancelled. If they show up to vote on 6 November, they will not be allowed to vote. That's wrong," Palast told reporters on a call on Friday. "We can prove they're still there. They should be allowed to vote."
[...] Palast and the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda filed a lawsuit against Kemp on Friday to force him to release additional records related to the state's removal of voters.
Under Georgia procedures, registered voters who have not cast ballots for three years are sent a notice asking them to confirm they still live at their address. If they don't return it, they are marked inactive. If they don't vote for two more general elections after that, they are removed from the rolls.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday October 23 2018, @10:26PM
In the US, a conflict of interest is not something that actually stops people with power from doing what they want, that's how. As for elections specifically, nearly all secretaries of state in the US are partisan officials who can and do use the power of their office with the goal of giving themselves and/or their buddies a better chance to win. And they get away with it because they are in turn protected by said buddies (e.g. elected state supreme court judges) from the legal consequences of their actions.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.