The Tool to Take 2016
The purge of those snared in the Crosscheck dragnet has only just begun. The process of actually removing names from the voter rolls is subtle and slow, involving several steps over many months. Some states mark their voters on the Crosscheck list as "inactive"-- which means that, if they failed to vote in this midterm election, they will be blocked from voting in 2016. As a result, Crosscheck will take an even bigger bite out of the 2016 voter rolls.
This bodes ill for the upcoming Presidential contest when, once again, Ohio is expected to be decisive. Ohio's Republican secretary of state, John Husted, has embraced Crosscheck.
We enlisted Columbus State University professor Robert Fitrakis, an expert in voting law to canvas county voting officials. He found these local elections officials concerned that the Republican Secretary of State is pushing counties to scrub voter rolls of "duplicates" within 30 days of receiving the names from the Secretary's office. This gives counties little time and no resources to verify if an accused voter has, in fact, voted in a second state.
Secretary of State Husted has refused to give us the list of the 469,201 names on Ohio's Crosscheck list--but we've obtained thousands anyway. We found that Ohio's lists have the same glaring mismatches as we saw in the Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia lists.
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