Joy Reid Warns GOP Is Trying To Rig The Election… In Wyoming

Posted • August 16, 2024: MSNBC’s Joy Reid devoted much of Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut to freaking out over the idea that Republicans will use various methods to undermine November’s election results should Donald Trump lose. One idea that was particularly unhinged was the idea that purging voter rolls is so problematic that it led Reid to warn that Republicans are even trying to rig the election in Wyoming. Reid claimed, “In Ohio, the Ohio secretary of state, Frank LaRose, purged nearly 160,000 people from the state's voter rolls. In Wyoming, a state that’s not even in play, they voided 28 percent of their voter registrations in a mandatory purge. In Georgia, Georgia Elections Board has this new inquiry for certifying election results. There's a website that the NAACP in the state says you have 20 days to take this down because people could literally mass delete people from the voter rolls. This is what we're up against.”

In Ohio, LaRose claimed that about two percent of registered voters were removed. Removals occur if voters died, moved away, or have not been active for four years, not because Republicans are trying to rig the election. In Wyoming, it is every two years. In Georgia, the website Reid referred to had some initial privacy problems, but once those were resolved, it is simply a way for people to cancel either their own voter registration or that of a deceased loved one. (…)

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