Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
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Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
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Re: Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
#2Too add a data point, here is a list of the 10 most common pairs in the United States.
https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/calling-james-smith-10-most-co...
I hesitate to guess ethnicity based on names, but I see mostly Caucasian and Latin names (Smith is represented heavily).
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#3New York purged me back in 2010 and I was forced to vote provisional despite voting there consistently for many years. The fail extends all around.
Re: Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
#4This is a crime. The power to unregister voters must be forcibly taken away from states; especially red states, since they are the only ones abusing this power.
It should require federal action, instead.
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#5Too add a data point, here is a list of the 10 most common pairs in the United States. https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/calling-james-smith-10-most-co... I hesitate to guess ethnicity based on names, but I see mostly Caucasian and Latin names (Smith is represented heavily).
Many immigrants and especially African-Americans that are decendants of slaves have/use anglo-ized names rather than traditional names associated with their ethnicity.
Re: Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
#6This is a crime. The power to unregister voters must be forcibly taken away from states; especially red states, since they are the only ones abusing this power. It should require federal action, instead.
Well that's a non-starter, I'm sure people are de-registered for perfectly legitimate reasons all the time. But yes clearly this is an egregious abuse of power. Here in the UK local councillors have been jailed and punitively fined for pursuing voter registration and de-registration policies that were politically motivated. It's considered a serious crime.
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#7De rigueur pointer to a discussion of the birthday paradox for those who don't understand why the combination of first name, last name, and birth date is an unavoidably flawed way of uniquely identifying individuals:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-hom....
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#8Lawsuit was filed shortly after SB 442 was passed (which is what allowed the process to begin): http://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-files-lawsuit-indiana-unla...
Sadly, it will have to work its way through the court while names continue to be purged.
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#9In the US, there's a lot of concern about making it easy for voters to register and stay registered, because in the past officials used this to disenfranchise blacks in the south and minority groups.
I think they are not paying enough attention to the risk of intentional voter fraud (by hostile outsiders) in the modern world. In the last election, Russian election manipulation became a big topic because they hacked e-mail servers and placed some fake news ads. Can you imagine what it would have done to the country if they had actually placed fraudulent votes in key districts? Would you have accepted Donald Trump as president if there had been serious questions about whether he'd been elected by fraudulent votes? This is not really that hard to imagine!
The system today is pretty vulnerable to manipulation by outsiders, and the discussion about voter disenfranchisement is keeping us from fixing that...
Re: Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
#10In the US, there's a lot of concern about making it easy for voters to register and stay registered, because in the past officials used this to disenfranchise blacks in the south and minority groups. I think they are not paying enough attention to the risk of intentional voter fraud (by hostile outsiders) in the modern world. In the last election, Russian election manipulation became a big topic because they hacked e…
That's complete nonsense. The Supreme Court and several district courts have found states like North Carolina to be actively using purges and registration changes for the purpose of disenfranchising voters. Furthermore, if you want to protect the integrity of the vote, registration is the last logical place to start, as in person fraud is vanishingly rare. Only 2 people were charged with doing so in this past election, 2.
If we want to secure the machines, that is a totally different scenario, and unrelated to purging voter rolls.