858,000 Joseph Garcia's stopped from voting in the 2016 Election - GOP stopping voting

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Kris Kobach is the author of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, a system that has been adopted by 28 states—most under GOP control. These include the important swing states of Ohio, Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina. Kobach claims that the system can detect if someone is registered in more than one state: something that is actually an extremely rare occurrence. Crosscheck supposedly uses first name, last name, date of birth, and social security number. Kobach promised that Kansas would foot the bill to cover the costs of compiling the lists. The GOP Secretaries of State jumped at this. 

Here's the problem:

According to the Crosscheck's own instruction manual:

"Social Security numbers are included for verification; the numbersmight or might not match"

In the list of voters obtained by Rolling Stone, the social security numbers were apparently not even used. 

Furthermore, one-fourth of the names on the list actually lacked a middle-name match, and ignored designations like Jr. or Sr.

In Georgia, hundreds of people with the name James Brown were tagged as suspects of voting twice—even though the system made no distinction between James Clifford Brown or James Arthur Brown. 

Rolling Stone contacted every state for their Crosscheck list. It should be public record, but because voting twice is a felony, they were told that the lists were “suspects" part of a "criminal investigation."  

In other words, a Trump racist can get your state’s voter information, but a publication that wants to ensure innocent people don't have their fundamental, constitutional right to vote purged was told that exact same information is secret.

Rolling Stone got a few breaks. For example, Virginia sent them their list. (The state later sent a letter saying that was done in "error".) The results were shocking.

In that crucial swing state, 342,556 names were listed as apparently registered to vote in both Virginia and another state.

To make this even more sinister, the lists that Rolling Stone managed to obtain showed that the lists were targeting Democrats:

According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters – with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.

One enthusiastic person who signed up was Ohio’s right-wing Secretary of State, Jon Husted.  Ohio’s list has flagged almost 500,000 people! Rolling Stone noticed that a lot of these so-called double voters were from poor, minority neighborhoods. One voting rights attorney said there is only one reason John Husted is doing this:

"He doesn't want to match middle names, because he doesn't want real matches. They're targeting people with clearly defined ethnic names that typically vote for the Democratic Party. He wants to win Ohio the only way he knows how – by taking away the rights of citizens to vote."

Mark Swedlund, a database expert whose clients include eBay and American Express, who looked at the data and was shocked. His exact words were:

 "God forbid your name is Garcia, of which there are 858,000 in the U.S., and your first name is Joseph or Jose. You're probably suspected of voting in 27 states."