The Republican National Committee has moved to intervene in a new federal lawsuit that alleges county election boards throughout Georgia have illegally removed roughly 1,000 voters from voter registration rolls at the behest of election denial activists, Rolling Stone and American Doom have learned. Many of the voters removed from the rolls are homeless, the lawsuit alleges. The involvement of the RNC — where the former president installed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair — is another concerning sign that the Republican Party and the Trump campaign are interfering in Georgia elections less than 90 days from the presidential election, according to voting rights advocates and Democrats.
The RNC’s motion to intervene in the lawsuit comes after the new MAGA majority on the Georgia State Election Board passed a rule allowing county election officials to arbitrarily deny certification of results . On Monday, the State Election Board passed another rule giving even more power to local election officials to refuse to certify results. At least 19 election deniers sit on county election boards throughout Georgia, Rolling Stone and American Doom have previously found .
In some of those counties, election denial activists have filed mass challenges to voters they say should be removed from voter rules. Those challenges alleged that voters had changed addresses but illegally remained on voter rolls. Many of those challenges were “based on unvetted documentation and unr.