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ASHEVILLE Asheville Tea Party challenged 257 voter registrations in Buncombe County on Thursday.
The group said the registrations are for people who no longer live at addresses shown in voting records.
Group Chairman Jane Bilello said it does not appear that anyone whose registration is being challenged voted this year.
She said the group, working with the Raleigh-based Voter Integrity Project, is asking that the registrations be removed so that someone who wanted to vote fraudulently could not pass themselves off as one of the people registered in order to vote in a future election.
A voter ID requirement is scheduled to go into effect in the state in 2016, although it is being challenged in court.
This is the groups second effort to have registrations purged from county rolls.
A previous one earlier this year was controversial. The League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County found that all the challenged registrations belonged to voters in 11 precincts in the city with significant populations of low-income people and African-Americans.
Asheville Tea Partys effort had the effect of intimidating voters, a league official said at the time, and it was later learned that many of those challenged were registered as living at a homeless shelter.
People involved in the challenges said they had not targeted specific groups of voters.
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By John King, CNN Chief National Correspondent
updated 9:18 AM EST, Mon December 8, 2014
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Washington (CNN) -- Listen to how loud tea party forces are this week and it will remind you of a valuable lesson: for some conservatives, the 2014 wins are likely to translate into more disappointment -- not more power.
The big issue -- and the last big act of the current Congress -- is whether lawmakers will pass a spending bill that keeps the government running well into 2015. Some tea party activists insist it is their duty to deny President Obama any funding that would help him implement what they call amnesty -- meaning the administration's recent executive actions on illegal immigration.
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Transcript: President Obama's immigration address
In Monday's conservative Red State morning briefing, Item No. 1 is a complaint against the GOP leadership:
"They preemptively surrendered and now want to both nibble at Obamacare instead of end it and they want to fund the President's immigration plan. House Republicans, this week, are set to fund Barack Obama's amnesty plan with the help of House Democrats. If you want to stop amnesty, you must flood the offices of members of congress with phone calls. There's no other way. They need to hear from you and that you demand they keep their promises."
It's the kind of talk that in the past has put Speaker Boehner on thin ice -- and remember we did have a brief government shutdown not all that long ago because he could not corral -- and control -- the tea party forces.
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