Kris Kobach has yet another plan to rig the election for Republicans

Kris Kobach is the nation's number one hater of people of color, young people, Democrats in general. From authoring Arizona's notorious "papers please" anti-immigration law to coming up with the idea that Mexico will pay for Donald Trump's wall, Kobach has been a scourge on democracy, one that Kansas was unfortunately stupid enough to put into an office where he could do serious damage. As secretary of state, that's exactly what he's doing, and it's not confined just to Kansas. At Rolling Stone, Greg Palast has an alarming exposé describing a multi-state effort to deny millions the franchise this election. 

It's called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, a system "being promoted by a powerful Republican operative" (that's Kobach) that purports to analyze voter registrations and find duplicates in other states, to determine if people are voting illegally in more than one state. 

But Rolling Stone obtained a portion of the list and the names of 1 million targeted voters. According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters—with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races. […]

On its surface, Crosscheck seems quite reasonable. Twenty-eight participating states share their voter lists and, in the name of dispassionate, race-blind Big Data, seek to ensure the rolls are up to date. To make sure the system finds suspect voters, Crosscheck supposedly matches first, middle and last name, plus birth date, and provides the last four digits of a Social Security number for additional verification.

In reality, however, there have been signs that the program doesn't operate as advertised. Some states have dropped out of Crosscheck, citing problems with its methodology, as Oregon's secretary of state recently explained: "We left [Crosscheck] because the data we received was unreliable."

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