This month, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger began the process of purging nearly half a million voters from the voter registration rolls – a move that could impact 6% of the state’s registered voters. In a state where elections are often decided by razor-thin margins, that’s enough to swing the outcome.
If your name is on the list, you must respond by August 20th or your registration will be canceled.
That’s why today, we launched a new voter purge lookup tool at FairFight.com/StopThePurges – so Georgians can see if they’re on the purge list and if eligible, take action to stay on the rolls ahead of key elections this fall.
You can use it to:
Find out if you’ve been flagged for removal
Take steps to stay registered to vote
Share your story if you were wrongly targeted
As Fair Fight CEO Lauren Groh-Wargo put it:
“This is voter suppression by administrative process – and it’s happening alongside efforts in Washington to pass the SAVE Act, which would bury voter registration under mountains of new government red tape and disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans. Fair Fight’s new tool helps voters defend their freedom to vote and stay on the rolls – because we can’t let flawed data or government bureaucracy silence our voices or strip away our power.”
This Isn’t New – It’s a Pattern
In 2017, Georgia’s then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp oversaw the largest voter purge in state history, removing nearly 670,000 registrations in a single year. Between 2012 and 2018, over 1.4 million voters were purged in Georgia. Investigations later showed that these purges disproportionately targeted Black voters and other voters of color.
Today’s purge echoes those same tactics – but this time, voters have a new tool to fight back.
Republicans in Congress Want to Make Registering to Vote Harder
This latest purge isn’t happening in a vacuum. While Georgia officials are erasing voters from the rolls here at home, Donald Trump and his allies are pushing a national voter suppression bill in Congress: the so-called SAVE Act.
The SAVE Act would force voters to present specific, expensive government documents to prove their citizenship – in person – in order to register. That would effectively eliminate registration by mail, online registration, and voter registration drives. Millions of Americans – especially naturalized citizens, young voters, and rural voters – could be disenfranchised.
It’s an old Jim Crow trick: use red tape and false claims of fraud to block access to the ballot. And it’s part of a broader strategy to suppress voters and consolidate minority rule.
Innovating to Fight Voter Suppression
We don’t just respond to threats. We build tools to stop them.
Last year, Fair Fight Action launched Peaches – a first-of-its-kind multilingual AI chatbot to help Georgians register, find their polling place, and get accurate information.
Now, our purge lookup tool is helping Georgians take the next step: staying on the rolls, sharing their stories, and defending the freedom to vote.
If you live in Georgia, check your status at FairFight.com/StopThePurges.
If you’re not in Georgia, share the link with friends and family who are. We have to fight voter suppression from every angle – in Congress, in court, and in communities across the South.
They’re trying to erase our votes. We’re fighting back.
Standing with Georgia voters,
Fair Fight Team
Thanks for fighting for a Constitutionally allowable elections. Elections and their place and manner are left to the various States, per Article 1, sections 4 and 5. Amendment 14 extends that right to all Citizens, born or naturalized extends that vote to all male Citizens over the age of 21. Amendment 19 extends that right to the female gender and Amendment 26 extends the vote to all Citizens reaching their 18th birthday. Nowhere in the Constitution does it give the Executive Branch the right to remove the vote from anyone. Nowhere in the Constitution does it prohibit or prevent other Citizens for assisting voters with their ballots.
If we had a Constitutional Executive Branch today, there would be no problem.
The board of elections should not be allowed to delete any voter’s information unless they have documented proof that the voter has died, like a death certificate or proof that they have moved out of the district.