The great 2024 voting purge has begun. Can anything be done?

Other than last Sunday's revelation that Saudi Arabia and Russia had begun

manipulating oil availability to create high gas prices to kneecap

Biden this fall. The most underreported story of the week was also posted to the

New York Times the same day. Alexander Berzon and Nick Coruscante wrote for this for last Sunday's times

quote a network of right-wing activists and allies of Donald J. Trump is quietly

challenging thousands of voter registrations in critical presidential

battleground states and all but unnoticed effort that could have an impact in a

close or contentious election." End quote. Noting that there's virtually no evidence of voter fraud in any of the states

targeted by this new group which is run by quote former Trump lawyer Cleta

Mitchell and true the vote a vote monitoring group with a long history of spreading

misinformation, end quote.

The Times article notes that their targets are quite specific.

In Michigan, for example, they have, quote, turned up large numbers of

supposedly questionable voters in dense areas of Detroit and in student housing in Ann Arbor, both overwhelmingly Democratic cities, end quote.

Using arcane laws and loopholes,-affiliated groups are challenging the right to vote of thousands of mostly Democratic voters across the states,

most likely to determine the outcome of the 2024 election.

While the Times report makes it seem like this is a new tactic, it's been a major

part of a Republican electoral strategy since the 1960s. They're just getting more sophisticated these days.

William Wrenquist, for example, was a 40-year-old Arizona lawyer and a Republican activist in 1964

when his idol Barry Goldwater was running against

Lyndon Johnson for president.

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