A Georgia elections committee last week heard recommendations on voting law changes from Janice Johnston — an election denier and vice chair of the state’s election board. Among the ideas: scrapping no-excuse mail voting and requiring handwritten numbered voter lists. Also in this week’s Eye On The Right: The White House hires election denier Kurt Olsen, True the Vote wants to know which counties are complying with President Donald Trump’s anti-voting order, and more.

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Here’s how Georgia’s election board hopes to rig the midterm elections

• Janice Johnston, the vice chair of Georgia’s state election board (SEB) and a longtime election denier, brought the board’s wishlist of voting law changes to the final meeting of the state Assembly’s Blue-Ribbon Study Committee on Election Procedures last week.
  
  
• Johnston’s wishlist included a switch to hand-marked paper ballots, a push for handwritten numbered voter lists and getting rid of no-excuse absentee voting. She also recommended that the state leave the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), an information-sharing database that helps states maintain accurate voter rolls and has become a bete noir of the right.
  
  
• The committee previously heard a pitch from the Georgia Republican Party, who also urged the Assembly to end no-excuse absentee voting, cut a week of early voting, and scrap automatic voter registration. 

True the Vote submitted public records requests in every state to see which counties are complying with Trump’s anti-voting order

• True the Vote revealed last week they submitted 250 public records requests — one to every state and to the 200 largest counties in America — to see what actions state and local election officials have taken to comply with Trump’s sweeping anti-voting executive order.
  
  
• Trump issued Executive Order 14248 — which threatens to disenfranchise millions of voters — back in March. Pro-voting groups swiftly sued, and key provisions of the sweeping anti-voting order — mandates requiring documentary proof of citizenship, targeting mail-in ballots, and imposing verification rules at public assistance agencies — remain blocked by federal courts.
  
  
• At the heart of the legal battle is a key question: Exactly how much must states comply with the order? The U.S. Constitution’s elections clause explicitly gives states the power to regulate the time, place and manner of elections. Stay tuned: I’ll be following up with some of the biggest counties in the top swing states to see how they’re responding to True the Vote’s request.
  

White House hires voting conspiracy theorist Kurt Olsen to investigate 2020 election

• Kurt Olsen, a former attorney for Trump’s 2020 campaign, was recently hired by the White House as a “special government employee” to investigate the 2020 election and other voting-related issues. Olsen was a key figure in Trump’s effort to overturn the results of that contest: He was involved in Texas’ challenge of the election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and pressured the U.S. Department of Justice to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to nullify the results.
  
  
• The exact details of Olsen’s appointment aren’t clear, but the Wall Street Journal reports that he’ll be working directly with Trump, and he’s already looking into voting machines, while “asking intelligence agencies for information about the 2020 election.”

Marly Hornik, a leading anti-voting activist, sues Letitia James and New York election board over voter rolls

• Marly Hornik, the recently ousted co-founder of the anti-voting group Unite4Freedom, posted on X that her other group, NY Citizens Audit (NYCA), sued New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Board of Elections (NYSBE) alleging discrepancies in the state’s voter rolls. They’re asking a federal court to order an audit of the 2022 general election.
  
  
• Back in 2022, the NYCA spread conspiracy theories of mass voter fraud in the Empire State — going so far as to recruit volunteers to pose as county board of elections staff to go door-to-door and interrogate voters about their voter registration status. The effort led to James issuing Hornik’s group a cease-and-desist order, claiming they violated the Voting Rights Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act for intimidating voters through threats.
  
  
• NYCA’s lawsuit claims they were defamed by James and the NYSBE, who dismissed their activities “as malicious and dangerous ‘misinformation.’” The group is also particularly miffed about James’ cease-and-desist order, which they said was an “unsubstantiated but aggressively publicized criminal investigation” that implied the NYCA “were motivated by racial animus.”