Effing Repugs! According to this presentation by Crosschecks Kris Kobach, the program would match possible double voters on multiple points: first, middle and last name; date of birth and the last four digits of Social Security numbers. That was the sales pitch. But the actual lists show that not only are middle names commonly mismatched and suffix discrepancies ignored, even birthdates don’t seem to have been taken into account. Moreover, Crosscheck deliberately ignores Social Security mismatches, in the few instances when the numbers are even collected. The Crosscheck instructions for county election officers state, “Social Security numbers are included for verification; the numbers might or might not match.” Crosscheck does not match Social Security numbers (pg 1) In this March 2013 document explaining the Crosscheck program to county election officers, the instructions explicitly say Social Security numbers might or might not match. In the lists obtained by Al Jazeera America, alleged double voters were matched on first and last name only. In practice, all it takes to become a suspect is sharing a first and last name with a voter in another state. Typical “matches” identifying those who may have voted in both Georgia and Virginia include:
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 05:48:21 +0000
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