Every day brings a new revelation about Republican, tea party, racist, fearmongering, corporate-ass-licking candidates or officials and their un-American voter repression efforts. But this one takes the cake. It is incredible that the Justice Department has not called this out and stopped it - already thousands of mostly minority voters have been erased from the voter rolls in fraudulent, illegal voter suppression. And of course it is ignored by the major mass media, owned by those who are fine with knocking every Jackson, Kim and Garcia off the rolls.
http://projects.aljazeera.com/...
You have to read the whole thing. And let's send ten million copies to Eric Holder, and Obama, and whoever's lawyering for the Democrats - and millions.... millions... of voters nationwide. A few quotes after the squiggle.
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.
The three states’ lists are heavily weighted with names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim — ones common among minorities, who vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Indeed, fully 1 in 7 African-Americans in those 27 states, plus the state of Washington (which enrolled in Crosscheck but has decided not to utilize the results), are listed as under suspicion of having voted twice. This also applies to 1 in 8 Asian-Americans and 1 in 8 Hispanic voters. White voters too — 1 in 11 — are at risk of having their names scrubbed from the voter rolls, though not as vulnerable as minorities.
That was the sales pitch. But the actual lists show that not only are middle names commonly mismatched and suffix discrepancies ignored, even birthdates don’t seem to have been taken into account. Moreover, Crosscheck deliberately ignores Social Security mismatches, in the few instances when the numbers are even collected. The Crosscheck instructions for county election officers state, “Social Security numbers are included for verification; the numbers might or might not match.”