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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKris Kobach's voter database might suffer the same fate as his signature voting law
Both a lawsuit and candidates for Kobach's office seek to end his Crosscheck system.
KIRA LERNER AUG 5, 2018, 12:48 PM
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS The day after a federal judge rejected Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobachs documentary proof of citizenship law in June, Scott Moore stood on the steps of the same federal court where Kobach had just been defeated and announced a new federal lawsuit against the elections chief.
Moore, a Mission Hills, Kansas resident, had recently learned that his personal information had been exposed when Kansas sent its voter file to another state participating in the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, commonly known as Crosscheck.
Kobach became the lead administrator of the database software that compares voter records across the country when he became secretary of state in 2011. Until recently, roughly two dozen states participated in the program, which research shows is incredibly flawed and produces false positives in more than 99 percent of cases it identifies as double voters. Citizens with foreign-sounding names are far more likely to be flagged, and potentially purged from voter rolls, through the program.
https://thinkprogress.org/kris-kobachs-voter-database-might-suffer-the-same-fate-as-his-signature-voting-law-f5d9356278ac/
What is really remarkable is that the state of Kansas and its citizens are paying for the other states to use this system, and have this tax burden added to them, while former governor Brownback and this asshole bankrupted the state along with the other fascist republicans in office.........................
What the (fuck): is the Matter with Kansas..................
Gothmog
(145,486 posts)Kobach's crosscheck program appears to be falling apart https://thevotingnews.com/red-state-and-gop-efforts-to-purge-voter-rolls-have-been-stymied-salon/
Recent national reports about purge trends, such as Purges: A Growing Threat to the Right to Vote, from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, have detailed Crosschecks sloppy methodology and anti-participatory impact. For example, the Brennan report noted that Virginias use of Crosschecks data in 2013 (when the GOP dominated the states executive branch and legislature) resulted in up to a 17 percent error rate.
However, the Indiana ruling and Brennan report (the Brennan Center is part of the team suing Indiana) also contain revelations about Crosschecks downward spiral, if not its possible demise. That storyline runs counter to the widespread progressive narrative that voter purges are an enduring and widespread threat in American elections including in 2018s midterms.
At the very least, Brennans report suggests that Crosscheck is withering in 2018.
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)and I hope the Brennan report is correct...............Thanx