• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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    additional protections for less high-profile voters include warnings on the portal that abusing it could be a felony, features built into the website to prevent a single user from submitting multiple cancellations, reviews of requests by county election workers and a postcard that alerts voters whose registration is canceled. He said those safeguards make it extremely difficult to successfully cancel someone elseā€™s voter registration.

    They really think a warning is going to stop bad actors from de-registering dems en masse?

    Well certainly that warning comes with certain punishment, right?

    The portal warns users that impersonating someone to cancel a voter registration is a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Hassinger said the Secretary of Stateā€™s Office was consulting with in-house legal experts about whether to seek charges for the individuals who had attempted to cancel Raffenspergerā€™s and Greeneā€™s registrations.

    Oh, nm.

    "We want to protect votersā€™ personally identifiable information,ā€ Hassinger said. ā€œThatā€™s part of running secure elections, and thatā€™s the job that we take very seriously.ā€

    Doubt.