A Rolling Stone investigation found that a voter fraud prevention program launched by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has built-in racial bias that puts people with African-American, Latino and Asian names at greater risk of being wrongly accused of double voting. Credit: Wikipedia.

A Rolling Stone investigation found that a voter fraud prevention program launched by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has built-in racial bias that puts people with African-American, Latino and Asian names at greater risk of being wrongly accused of double voting.
Credit: Wikipedia.

Back in 2005, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach — who as chair of his state’s Republican Party championed an illegal voter suppression technique called “caging” — launched a program called Interstate Crosscheck to compare voter registration data across states and ferret out evidence of double voting.

The program has since expanded to 30 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), but it’s been controversial from the start. For one thing, it’s resulted in very few actual cases of fraud being referred […]

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