ProPublica: ELLY Data Flagged Four Forsyth County Voters as Dead, All Alive; Georgia Board Rejects Challenge

ProPublica reported that a member of the Forsyth County, Georgia election board, Max Clavijo, gave other officials what he suggested was evidence of wrongdoing this week: four allegedly dead voters, drawn from ELLY’s Election Monitor, a data tool developed by Election Integrity Network member Rick Richards. ProPublica determined all four are alive and well, and the board rejected the attempt to challenge their ballots. Clavijo, a member of the Election Integrity Network, a group led by conservative lawyer Cleta Mitchell, also questioned whether the names of more than 22,000 people on the county’s voter roll were correct and disputed the eligibility of 69 voters. Richards told ProPublica that he gave Clavijo the Forsyth data at Clavijo’s request. Under fire from board members, Clavijo admitted he could not vouch for the data’s accuracy. Richards promised to provide data from more than 3,000 counties to “citizen monitors” and GOP candidates.

The tool is the one documented in 2026-08-04–rebranded-eagleai-elly-psephos-pitched-state-election-officials-voter-purge. ProPublica reports that voting rights groups have called ELLY error-prone; the Forsyth outcome is a single county, and ProPublica did not establish whether the effort was part of a wider campaign.