From Greg Palast Website
By Gary Flowers and Greg Palast for Richmond Free Press
Imagine a wonderful parting gift from Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Imagine if Gov. McAuliffe put an end to Virginia's strange and inexplicable participation in a GOP voter suppression trick that reeks of Jim Crow.
Since 2013, this stealth voter purge program has cost tens of thousands of Virginians of color their right to vote. It's called Interstate Crosscheck.
Interstate Crosscheck is the suspect computer program created by Kris Kobach, former Kansas secretary of state and a Trump administration appointee as vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, also known as the Voter Fraud Commission.
President Trump, who is unfit to serve, alleged that millions of Americans were registered or "voting many, many times" in two or more states in the same election -- a felony.
In June, Gov. McAuliffe laughed off these claims of mass voter fraud as nonsense and denounced the Election Integrity Commission as "a tool to commit large-scale voter suppression."
Furthermore, the governor flatly refused to hand over Virginia's voter files to Mr. Kobach.
What Gov. McAuliffe did not say -- and apparently did not know -- is that Virginia already had turned over the files to Mr. Kobach months earlier.
In January, Virginia's Elections Board sent Mr. Kobach the voting records of 5,629,081 Virginians, including their birth date and Social Security data.
Worse, last year, the state Department of Elections tagged 73,798 Virginians as "duplicate" voters based in part on Mr. Kobach's suspect list.
Mr. Kobach, using his Crosscheck computer-matching program, has generated a list of an astonishing 3.1 million Americans that he has tagged as suspected "duplicate" voters or registrants.
What is not so laughable is that 28 states have removed hundreds of thousands of voters named on Mr. Kobach's secret lists. Not surprisingly, almost all of the Crosscheck states are Republican controlled. A surprising exception: Virginia.
So who are these Virginians discovered by Mr. Kobach who dare to register to vote in two states at once?
Despite official resistance, a Rolling Stone magazine investigations team obtained Virginia's Crosscheck list of the accused. For example, according to Crosscheck, James Cross Barnes III of Arlington is "potentially" the same voter as James Elmer Barnes Jr. of Fayetteville, Ga. And James Anthony Barnes is supposed to be the same person as James Ratcliffe Barnes Jr.
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