The Untold Story Of Interstate Crosscheck

Alfonso KC
Feb 25, 2017 · 3 min read
States in red participate in the Interstate Crosscheck System

Many are saying that our elections were meddled with, and that there were votes that were tampered with. And they would be right, but not in the way they would think.

Unfortunately, this story is not well known, and not told very often, but it is one which needs to be known and needs to be told, that of Interstate Crosscheck, created by Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, and past nominee for Trump’s Attorney General. What Interstate Crosscheck supposedly does is check for people who might be voting twice in two different states. However, most of the names selected for this checking are commonly found in minority communities, with African Americans being overrepresented by 45%, Asians by 31%, and Hispanics by 24%. Plus, names don’t even have to match up completely, with the endings Jr. and Sr. being mostly ignored, middle names being mostly ignored, and even mis-matching Social Security numbers being mostly ignored.

What this leads to is a systematic approach for states to target minority communities, and other demographics of their pleasing, likely mostly demographics who vote democrat, since 20 out of the 27 states that participate in Interstate Crosscheck have republican governors.

This system can easily be used to rig or steal an election. For example, in Michigan, Trump’s margin of victory was less than 12,000 votes. Yet more than 75,000 votes were never counted (most of these votes came from Flint and Detroit, two cities with a majority of African Americans as their population), and in terms of people who couldn’t even vote at all, more than 55,000 Michigan voters were removed from voter rolls by Interstate Crosscheck.

It is unbelievable to me that twenty seven of the United States use this blatantly racist system to commit mass election fraud, and it’s even more unbelievable to me that the media will not say one thing about this. In the words of Mark Twain, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed”. This is a perfect example of how many widely watched media outlets are simply not trustworthy. I’ve written about this issue and which media outlets are trustworthy here:

Put simply, the media is not doing it’s job. It is not reporting on issues that matter and that effect the American people, and Interstate Crosscheck is unfortunately only one example. So now it is our job to spread this story of racism, and of election fraud, and to make sure the American people know: democracy has been compromised.

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