DeKalb board hears citizen challenge to registrations using PO/UPS addresses; dismisses six withdrawn challenges but takes no final action on bulk list

The DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections on Thursday heard testimony about a citizen's challenge to scores of voter registrations that a challenger says list U.S. Postal Service boxes, UPS stores or other commercial mail centers as residential addresses. The board voted to dismiss six elector challenges that the challenger had formally withdrawn, but took no final action on the remaining group of challenged registrations after the hearing ended without a majority decision.

The challenge was filed by Bill Henderson, who told the board he had identified 128 registrations (after earlier withdrawals) that he said used post office or commercial mail addresses as the registrants' listed residences. “These all have residential addresses that are addresses of either US post offices, UPS stores, or other mail center businesses and strip malls,” Henderson said in his testimony (transcript excerpt). He urged the board to approve challenges in bulk so the elections office could give electors the opportunity to correct registrations.

The board dismissed six challenges that had been formally withdrawn by Henderson: Tess…