From Al Jazeera:
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, according to a six-month-long, nationwide investigation by Al Jazeera America.
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.
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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 by Kobach to the National Association of State Election Directors, the program is a highly sophisticated voter-fraud-detection system. The sample matches he showed his audience included 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.
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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. According to the article, 23% of the names on the Crosscheck list have non-matching middle names. In other words, they are two entirely different people.
In Virginia alone, more than 40,000 have already been flagged as ineligible to vote, thanks to Crosscheck.
I recommend reading the entire article - it's the sort of piece that leaves a lump in the pit of your stomach. I just hope the DOJ intervenes in time to reverse this outrageous scheme.