No one ever said Big Brother would be 'benevolent' ...
Republican Crosscheck Program Threatens to Remove Voting Privileges for Millions of Minorities
by Anjalee Khemlani, LatinPost.com -- Nov 02, 2014 0
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The problem? They are names as common as Smith in the minority cultures.
Georgia, Virginia and Washington released a list of 2 million to Al-Jazeera and include the names such as Jackson, Garcia, Patel and Kim.
The project was started by Kansas secretary of state, Kris Kobach -- a controversial Republican figure who has been pursuing voter fraud for some time.
This project, which has now spread to 27 states, is being compared to the Jim Crow laws -- calling it a modified version of the laws which restricted African-American voting for nearly a century before the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act revoked them.
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Explore the list
Use the search boxes below to search through Crosscheck lists from Georgia and Virginia. If your name appears on this list, you are a potential double voter. Voting twice is a felony, punishable by 2 to 10 years in prison. Guilty or not, voters whose names appear on these lists could be purged from voter rolls.
This is the first time these lists have been made public since the Crosscheck program began in 2005. Al Jazeera America obtained these lists through open records requests.
The total Crosscheck list contains 6,951,484 voters from 28 states. These two lists obtained by Al Jazeera America represent 1,703,958 voters.
Is the "doppelgänger" you -- 'committing' a felony
in your name -- by voting in one of 27 other states -- using
your 'John Hancock'?
Are you?
How can this be? Oh, it bees.
Voter purge done well
by the Editorial Board, thetimes-tribune.com -- November 24, 2014
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But the reason that some people are registered in more than one state is an innocent one -- they move from one state to another. They often do not notify the voter registration office in the county they leave, then register in the county to which they move. It’s a problem for every state, but actually less so that most for Pennsylvania because residents here tend not to move out of state as much as residents of most other states.
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The effects of this non-crime-stopping purging, have been noticed by no less than poll-forecaster Nate Silver (to the tune of 4%), as explained by fellow-dkos member LamontCranston, a few days ago. Here are a few of those highlights:
We Were Robbed, And Nobody Called The Police.
by LamontCranston, Nov 24, 2014
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Interstate Crosscheck is computer system that officials claim can identify anyone who commits the crime of voting twice in the same election in two different states. While the current list of seven million “suspects” did not yield a single conviction for double voting, Crosscheck did provide the grounds for removing the registrations of tens of thousands of voters in battleground states.
The purge proved decisive in North Carolina, Colorado, Kansas and elsewhere. [...]
In North Carolina, Republican Thom Tillis upset incumbent Senator Kay Hagan by just 48,511 votes. North Carolina’s Crosscheck purge list targeted a stunning 589,393 voters.
In Colorado, Cory Gardner, the Republican, defeated Mark Udall by just 49,729 votes. Colorado’s Crosscheck “potential double voter” list totals 300,842.
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You never know who is "
watching" you ... or who may be "purging" you from the rolls of democracy, without your informed consent.
... without your knowledge. ... without your vote.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Don't think twice, cuz
it can't happen here. ... Can it?
Oh, it cans.