A half-million records and one app: The group behind a massive effort to ‘clean’ voter rolls | CNN Politics

Thousands of voters have been needlessly challenged ahead of this November ’s election, CNN finds.

Activists say they are merely trying to help clean voter rolls to prevent fraud, but challenges have been riddled with errors.

Some officials say they cannot simply purge voters from the rolls without making efforts to contact them and following other safeguards.

About a dozen people in Denton County , Texas , have submitted what has sometimes surpassed 1,000 challenges a day.

True the Vote’s founder highlighted what she called a “sketchy” address in Phoenix where she said hundreds of people were registered to vote.

One woman challenged a few local police officers who lawfully listed their address as a government building, emails show.

In November 2016 , a True the Vote board member tweeted that he had verified more than 3 million votes cast by non-citizens.

A watchdog group filed a complaint with the IRS last year alleging that the group improperly paid former director Phillips ’ business and improperly loaned money to a director.

Despite those controversies, the group’s revenue has ballooned over the last decade .