Investigation: Millions threatened by voter purge (part four)

October 30, 2014

In 27 states, election officials, mostly Republicans, have launched programs that threaten to wipe multitudes from rolls

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Investigation: Millions threatened by voter purge (part four)

Greg Palast got suspicious about the supposed crime wave of voter fraud, so he decided to look into it. In his six-month investigation, he found that more than half of U.S. states were using the program Crosscheck to flag and sometimes purge potentially fraudulent voters from their rolls. Only three would hand over their “double voter” lists, and they’re heavily weighted with names common among minorities, such as Jackson, Garcia and Kim. We’ve made these lists public for the first time. Are you on them? Plug in your name here.

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