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Interstate Crosscheck

Monday 4th of May 2026

2016 Presidential election Virginia had already removed 41,637 voters from the Crosscheck list—tens of thousands of voters whose only crime was having a common name. If all Crosscheck states follow Virginia's pattern, removing about 12 percent of the voters on their Crosscheck list, over one million voters will lose their right to vote by Election Day, November 2016. Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [Interstate Crosscheck is a software package funded by Charles and David Koch and used by 30 states to identify nearly 7.2 million people with similar names who it deems “suspected double voters” that the states remove from their voter rolls without arresting or convicting the “suspects”] © 2016 Kwiple.com
Interstate Crosscheck The most common names in America belong to African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. … Interstate Crosscheck, by matching only first and last names, is a brilliant way to eliminate voters of color. This “laughable” computer program is blocking the right to vote to more Black Americans, Asian- and Hispanic- Americans than the Ku Klux Klan could have dreamed of. Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy [Interstate Crosscheck is a software package funded by Charles and David Koch and used by 30 states to identify nearly 7.2 million people with similar names who it deems “suspected double voters” that the states remove from their voter rolls without arresting or convicting the “suspects”] © 2016 Kwiple.com
 
Interstate Crosscheck One study of the Crosscheck program found 200 false matches for every accurately identified instance of double voting. The Guardian, June 30, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com