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The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters
The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters
Will an anti-voter-fraud program designed by one of Trump's advisers deny tens of thousands their right to vote in November?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890
By: Greg Palast
Date: 2016-08-24
When Donald Trump claimed, “the election's going to be rigged,” he wasn't entirely wrong. But the threat was not, as Trump warned, from Americans committing the crime of “voting many, many times.” What's far more likely to undermine democracy in November is the culmination of a decade-long Republican effort to disenfranchise voters under the guise of battling voter fraud. The latest tool: Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of citizens whom they allege could be registered in more than one state – thus potentially able to cast multiple ballots – and eligible to be purged from the voter rolls.
The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential. 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.
Source: http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters.html
