A conservative activist group is challenging swing state Democratic voter rolls in an orchestrated fashion. As usual, Black voters are in the crosshairs, all in an effort to assist Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. The strategy seeks to raise doubts about the integrity of voter registrations and create undue obstacles to the ballot.

The group, True the Vote, is engaged in a new version of an old tactic meant to stifle the Black vote, among others. This election year, with the upcoming primary, Georgia Democrats should consider responding in kind.

The practice is officially known as “voter caging,” which the Brennan Center for Justice defines as “a notoriously unreliable means of calling the voter rolls into question and can lead to unwarranted purges or challenges of eligible citizens. When it is targeted at minority voters (as it often is, unfortunately), it is also illegal.”

The practice is relatively inexpensive to implement, hidden from public view and relies on the nuances of state and federal law. It can work to frustrate voters in a number of ways: the successful removal of registration for petty reasons, or the discouragement of voters through fear of legal consequences, or the disruption of easy voting practices.

In 2021, during the Senate runoff election in Georgia, True the Vote challenged the registration of 360,000 voters. Judge Steven Jones of the the Northern District of Georgia ruled earlier this year that the practice did not amount to the illegal intimidation of voters. He concluded that “there is no evidence that Defendants’ actions caused (or attempted to cause) any voter to be intimidated, coerced, or........

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