Election officials in 27 states, most of them Republicans, have launched a program that threatens a massive purge of voters from the rolls. Millions, especially black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters, are at risk. Already, tens of thousands have been removed in at least one battleground state, and the numbers are expected to climb.
At the heart of this voter-roll scrub is the Interstate Crosscheck program, which has generated a master list of nearly 7 million names. Officials say that these names represent legions of fraudsters who are not only registered but have actually voted in two or more states in the same election, a felony punishable by 2 to 10 years in prison.
There are 6,951,484 names on the target list of the 28 states in the Crosscheck group; each of them represents a suspected double voter whose registration has now become subject to challenge and removal. According to a 2013 presentation to the National Association of State Election Directors, the program is a highly sophisticated voter-fraud-detection system. The program is suppose to match the following criteria: first, last and middle name or initial; date of birth; suffixes; and Social Security number, or at least its last four digits.
In Virginia alone, more than 40,000 have already been flagged as ineligible to vote, thanks to Crosscheck.
The thing is, they aren't actually trying to accurately match purported two-state voters. People with different Social Security numbers, and/or different middle names are being accused of being the same person.
A further detail check found 23% of the names on the Crosscheck list have non-matching middle names. In other words, they are two entirely different people.
We need independent commissions to audit these types of programs before any actions are taken. We also need to allow a selected voter to challenge the purge.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!
Michael H. Drucker
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