Trump cronies wasting more taxpayers dollars and carelessly handling data

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More worrysome than the waste of taxpayer money is the security of collected personal information on voters.

Really stupid fucking Republicans screaming about non-existent problems, and creating actual problems in the process.

Here is the short version of their stupidity about "fraud":

That episode reflects the nature of Trump’s voter-fraud commission and the modus operandi of many politicians who claim voter fraud is rampant: They make false, unverified, or disputed claims of fraudulent voting, then use those claims as evidence that anti-voter-fraud efforts are necessary, and when claims are debunked, cite that as a demonstration of the need to pursue the subject more thoroughly. No matter how comprehensive the data, both analyses that purport to document the presence of voter fraud and those that are taken as signals of the need to dig deeper and pass further legislation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-trump-voter-fraud-commissions-data-problem/539547/


Here is one of your commissioners hard at work.


Administrators of the voter registration database used by 32 states and run by Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state and the co-chair of President Trump’s Commission on Voter Integrity, are emailing passwords and using unencrypted servers, according to newly released documents. These basic security vulnerabilities are leaving sensitive voter information open to the public and potentially hackers
https://thinkprogress.org/security-crosscheck-program-86f889b5e6e4/

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Of course, Pootin's cyber army has stolen, and will continue to steal, all of the Kunt Kobach's data for targeting Dem voters in 2018 elections.

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"Voting advocates have raised concerns about the inaccuracy of the program —

roughly 99 percent of the illegal double voters the program catches are false positives, (https://5harad.com/papers/1p1v.pdf)

with non-white citizens (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890) more likely to be falsely flagged as double voters. "

I read one article the Kunt Kobach's Crosscheck bullshit matched only first and last names to prove that "john smith" was an illegal, fraudulent double voter.

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Voter Suppression Laws Cost Americans Their Voices at the Polls

this year, the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, many Americans across the country were blocked from having their voices heard in the democratic process.

States have gone on a spree restricting voting rights and voter access since 2010, when Republican-controlled state legislatures began passing voter ID laws and other provisions making it more difficult to vote.1 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/#fn-292322-1)

Once the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013,

even more states made it harder to vote in ways that were targeted at and fell disproportionately on people of color, young people, and low-income people.

In 2014, Wisconsin passed a strict photo ID law requiring voters to show specific, restrictive forms of identification at the polls.4 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/#fn-292322-4)

It is significant that only 27,000 votes currently separate President-elect Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton when 300,000 registered voters in the state lacked the strict forms of voter ID required.5 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/#fn-292322-5)Wisconsin’s voter turnout was at its lowest level in two decades.6 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/#fn-292322-6)

Voter turnout in Milwaukee, where 70 percent of the state’s African American population lives, decreased by 13 percent;7 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/#fn-292322-7)

this meant 41,000 fewer votes.

Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Neil Albrecht reports that the voter ID restrictions depressed turnout, saying

“We saw some of the greatest declines in districts we projected would have most trouble with voter ID requirements.”8 (https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/#fn-292322-8)

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/democracy/reports/2016/11/11/292322/voter-suppression-laws-cost-americans-their-voices-at-the-polls/

Repugs win only by cheating through voter suppression, gerrymandering, counting fraud (Repug states refuse to upgrade their ancient, easily hackable (by Repugs) voting gear.

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Trump’s voter fraud chief busted for copying debunked chain letter claims for anti-immigrant Breitbart column

Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state and vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s “election fraud” commission, has a Breitbart column, the source material for his latest op-ed sure is.

As Media Matters (https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/25/kris-kobach-cut-and-pasted-anti-immigrant-chain-letter-bullet-points-breitbart-column/218326) notes, one bullet point from

his October 24 column trashing undocumented immigrants came from a chain email debunked by the Los Angeles Times in 2009 (https://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/07/local/me-tobar7).
That bullet point claimed “75 percent of those on the most wanted criminals lists in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.”

As the Times pointed out, that figure, which has been circulating on right-wing message boards and comments for years, cites a 2006 “report” by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) — a department that closed in 2003 after Homeland Security was created.

Another point asserted that “more than 53 percent of burglaries investigated in the border region states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas are committed by illegal aliens,” which has also been circulated online for over a decade.

For the second point, Kobach cites ConservativeTruth.org, which cited the “Foreign National Crime Information Center.” As Media Matters reported, the FNCI noted on their own website that

that figure was several years old and asked readers of the report to disregard it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trumps-voter-fraud-chief-busted-for-copying-debunked-chain-letter-claims-for-anti-immigrant-breitbart-column/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Kobach just another lying piece of Repug shit