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Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 31, 2017 08:46am |
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| Category | Study |
| Author | Kelly Weill |
| News Date | Sunday, October 29, 2017 11:15:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | More than 99 percent of voter fraud identified by a GOP-backed program is false, a study by Harvard, Yale, and Microsoft researchers found. Now Indiana is using the faulty program to de-register voters without warning.
In July, Indiana rolled out a new law allowing county officials to purge voter registrations on the spot, based on information from a dubious database aimed at preventing voter fraud. That database, the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, identifies people in different states who share the same name and birthdate. Crosscheck has long been criticized as using vague criteria that disproportionately target people of color. Now Indiana voters who share a name and birthdate with another American can have their registrations removed without warning—a system ripe for abuse, a new lawsuit claims. |
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