The concept of #Crosscheck was simple and, at first glance, quite reasonable: states would share their voter rolls with its chief, #KrisKobach, who would look for voters registered in two states and remove the duplicates. Who could argue with that? gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
The press praised #Crosscheck as a brilliant use of computers, and at its peak, 30 states joined the scheme. Almost all were Republican controlled, but some Democratic voting officials joined with enthusiasm. Who can defend fraudulent voters? gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
But this bothered me: On Kobach’s Crosscheck site, the number of potential double voters, by 2015, totaled 7,264,422. Seven million double voter suspects? (Or, as Kobach would have it it, 3.6 million Americans voting or registering twice.) gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
I was curious. Who are they? So, I got hold of the list...
The number one perp is a crew of double voters who all share the name James Brown. In Georgia alone, 288 James Browns were wrongly registered in a second state.
Here is a direct screenshot from the #Crosscheck list.
And look at this. The entire Jackson Five is on the #Crosscheck list. In fact, it’s the Jackson Five Thousand. gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
Then there is the “Mohamed Mohamed” posse. Because they share the most common name on the planet, they were able to pull off their electoral crime. Though, inexplicably, they changed their middle names. gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
It would be a joke . . . except that thousands of these Mohameds and Michael Jacksons and James Browns were purged from the voter rolls by #Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted of #PurgeByPostcard fame. gregpalast.com/ohios-junk-mai…
I brought in Mark Swedlund and his expert database team. They went through the #Crosscheck list name by name and discovered that two million of the supposed matched voters had either mis-matched middle names or mis-matched suffixes (Jr./Sr.) or both. gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
How could this be? I got my hands on the secret instructions for #Crosscheck’s implementation sent by Kobach to every voting state official telling them they could “ignore” mis-matches. Indeed, almost every one of the millions on the list was a mismatch. gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
And those actually registered in two states were simply innocent voters who had re-located but had not yet sent a notice to remove themselves from their old address. What they weren’t were criminal double voters. None. gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
But any reporter simply glancing at the list would know that.
So why didn’t US papers take note?
Because they didn’t ask.
Not a single American newspaper asked for the actual list of alleged double-registered voters.
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Not one asked for the names of the hundreds of thousands of voters named Jackson and Rodriguez and Mohamed who were purged and lost their right to vote. gregpalast.com/james-brown-vo…
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