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Local election offices across the country are struggling to manage a sharp rise in the number of public records requests, and extensive requests coming from Local Labs in at least five states have stymied election officials, according to a Votebeat review of hundreds of records requests, as well as interviews.

In North Carolina, Local Labs wanted obscure voter records that would take weeks, or even months, to prepare. In Georgia, the company requested a copy of every envelope voters used to mail in their ballots. And in dozens of counties across the U.S., Local Labs asked for the address of every midterm ...

Local Labs – which calls its work both political research and journalism – is demanding voters’ details across the country to back claims of election fraud

Local Labs is behind a deluge of election-related public records requests across the U.S., most recently partnering with the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute.

In North Carolina, Local Labs wanted obscure voter records that would take weeks, or even months, to prepare. In Georgia, the company requested a copy of every envelope voters used to mail in their ballots

At the beginning of June, 482 registered Woodbury County voters received a letter challenging their voter registration stating they are “not a resident at the address where registered to vote,"

'Usually it takes a while for people to become co-opted by the system. ... With Richer, it seemed to happen immediately.'

Transparency fosters trust. That’s why we read food labels and check out the deed to the house we’re buying. And, in New Mexico’s election system, it’s why the law allows

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A conservative-backed initiative to publish voter registration records from across the country online for public consumption can move forward over the objections of New Mexico election regulators, a federal judge has ordered in a preliminary opinion.

A federal judge OK'd online publication of New Mexico voter records by an online source.