'They're Just Coming After Us': Project 2025 Org is Now Harrassing Voter Registration Groups

'They’re just coming after us': Project 2025 org is now harassing voter registration groups, Alternet, Oct. 4, 2024.
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The voter registration groups helping new prospective voters navigate the bureaucracy of adding their names to the voter rolls are now having to contend with conservative activists harassing them. That's according to a Friday report in the New York Times, which focused on how Latino voter registration in Arizona is being complicated by the far right ahead of the 2024 election.

The Times reported that the Heritage Foundation — which is the organization behind the controversial Project 2025 authoritarian policy blueprint — is now deputizing conservatives to follow and film people helping Hispanic residents of swing states get registered ahead of the November election. Hector Sanchez-Barba is the executive director of the group Mi Familia en Acción, which is on the ground in eight states including battleground states like Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.

He told the Times that he's seen "a lot of intimidation on the front lines." “My canvassers have been filmed, they’ve been yelled at,” Sanchez Barba said. “They’re just coming after us.” Elsewhere around the country, advocacy groups have also been subjected to intimidation tactics when conducting outreach to Spanish-speaking communities.

Latino Community Fund Georgia executive director Gigi Pedraza remarked that one incident in the Atlanta, Georgia area seemed "ethnically motivated" after a conservative activist filmed three women with voter registration forms outside of a butcher shop and spread it with the caption: "ILLEGALS BEING RECRUITED TO REGISTER TO VOTE."

“They were just sitting with the forms,” Pedraza told the Times. “You cannot register anyone to vote who’s not a citizen.”...

https://www.alternet.org/project-2025-voter-registration/