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Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge
http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/index.html
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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The Crosscheck list of suspected double voters has been compiled by matching names from roughly 110 million voter records from participating states. Interstate Crosscheck is the pet project of Kansas controversial Republican secretary of state, Kris Kobach, known for his crusade against voter fraud.
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.
If even a fraction of those names are blocked from voting or purged from voter rolls, it could alter the outcome of next weeks electoral battle for control of the U.S. Senate and perhaps prove decisive in the 2016 presidential vote count.Its Jim Crow all over again, says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King, Jr. Lowery, now 93, says he recognizes in the list of threatened voters a sophisticated new form of an old and tired tactic. I think [the Republicans] would use anything they can find. Their desperation is rising.
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think
(11,641 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)with aggressive prosecution and severe penalties. Turn the GOP generated concern for voter fraud to the real crime of election fraud or cede any semblance of democracy.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)I just wish people would pay attention!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)That and the New Voting Rights Act! Super-de-duper double-plus good .
johnnyreb
(915 posts)We need to start putting the right people in prison.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Not only do they do NOTHING to stop it, they don't even raise hell about in the court of public opinion. In short, they are part of the problem by lacking any profiles in courage!
Gothmog
(145,462 posts)malaise
(269,121 posts)What a farce
marym625
(17,997 posts)Been tweeting for days
See, I love Greg Palast
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Where white privilege is nonexistent.
UTUSN
(70,722 posts)That's why I call him Jeb Crow Shrub
marym625
(17,997 posts)Democracy Now on Greg Palast's report
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/the_republicans_profane_attack_on_the_sacred_right_to_vote_20141029
great article
marym625
(17,997 posts)malaise
(269,121 posts)sharing it.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)There should be endless hell raised about this. We should have massive protests.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)the news media and most establishment Dems included--it was open season on voting rights in this country.
G_j
(40,367 posts)found ZERO actual double voters. This is election theft in action!