The efforts to cancel the voter registrations of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., via the state’s new online portal were unsuccessful. On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts — including unsuccessful efforts to cancel the registrations of two prominent Republicans, Rep.

A new web portal designed to allow Georgians to cancel their voter registration has come under fire after a technical bug caused personal data to display on users’ screens. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the new site Monday with the goal of allowing Georgians to easily cancel their voting registration if they move out of the state, or to cancel that of a recently-deceased loved one. Users are prompted to enter their first initial and last name, as well as their county of residence and birth date. After that,...

Republicans in Georgia have been champions at pioneering new ways to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Their latest scam is breathtaking. When Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp was Secretary of State — the state’s top elections official — and running against Stacey Abrams for Governor in 2018, Abrams’ organization had registered 53,000 people (70% African American) to vote. Kemp put those registrations so they couldn’t vote in the 2018 election, which he won by 54,723 votes. But that was just the beginning for Kemp. By the year prior to the 2018 election...