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This chart is from the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, a consortium of 28 states of which Iowa is a member. According to this article in today’s Before It’s News, Joe Ott describes the program and a recent analysis involving North Carolina (not shown on the chart) which more recently joined the consortium.
(The program is) set up to allow states to upload their voter rolls and voting records to a separate system and be able to crosscheck their registered voters with other states. The goal, obviously, is to find instances where the same individual is registered in multiple states, or even voted multiple times across the country.
The chart indicates that for Iowa 100,140 who voted in the 2012 General Election were identified as matching, by name and date of birth, a voter in another state who voted in the same election.
Were they indeed fraudulent votes? Research continues. But it is evidence like this that belies the contention that fraudulent or double voting cannot take place and measures to fight voter fraud are not necessary. Our own analysis of potential avenues for fraudulent voting in Iowa under existing laws do not require cross state fraud. That laxity only adds to the potential problem.
Note that because all states do not participate in the cross check program indications could be much worse. Note as well that the program is after the fact and not preventative in and of itself. Bordering states have the most hits. The best remedy is a current photo ID requirement. Of course the Scott County Republican Platform committee and convention declined any such specification. Related reading regarding the North Carolina report is available at North Carolina’s Civitas Institute. R Mall
Photo ID and initial proof of citizenship are making headway in state legislatures and in the courts.