Crosscheck has become politically divisive, however, as Democrats and some media reports have accused Crosscheck of using the program to remove blacks and Latinos from the voting rolls for political gain.
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But to me, you have to concentrate on what did happen versus kind of, mixing it all up with the Crosscheck because... in my opinion this had nothing to do with Crosscheck.
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The data returned by Crosscheck, however, contained mostly false positives.
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The actual Crosscheck program doesn't operate by such simplistic methods.
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In 2013, Virginia used Crosscheck to purge some 39,000 voters.
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They perform their own headcount to crosscheck against the clerks' record.
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Crosscheck was portrayed as a program to root out voter fraud.
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It's called CrossCheck, and it'll focus on the 2017 French presidential election.
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Arizona is the 9th state to drop out of the Crosscheck program.
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And an investigation by ProPublica found Crosscheck was riddled with security flaws.
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Like many systems built on common sense, Crosscheck is under emerging attack.
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Using Kobach's flawed assumptions, Crosscheck claimed Iowa has over 100,000 double voters.
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Caskey: It wasn't like we sent the results files from Crosscheck to Florida.
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Since 2013, eight states, both red and blue, have left the Crosscheck program.
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The problem is, Crosscheck produces a significant number of errors and false positives.
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People should crosscheck, look at the sources, be an aggressive consumer of news.
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Crosscheck appeared to offer an appealing scientific certainty to the hunt for fraud.
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Niskanen received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for the crosscheck.
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CrossCheck swiftly published a rebuttal on their website and their social media sites.
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Kentucky officially quit Crosscheck in June but made no official announcement at the time.
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The ACLU said Crosscheck cancellations are false positives in 99 percent of all cases.
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Kansas, which funds and administers Crosscheck, could attempt to fix the issues, but why?
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There is a well-funded and dishonest campaign launching against the important Crosscheck program.
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Crosscheck is a tool that when used properly, helps the integrity of American elections.
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I want to make it absolutely clear that we are not sending information to Crosscheck.
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Some states, including Florida and Oregon, have withdrawn from Crosscheck over concerns about its accuracy.
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This year, more than five million potential duplicate voters were identified throughout the Crosscheck membership.
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CrossCheck was launched by the First Draft News coalition, with support from the Google News Lab.
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That means Crosscheck might tell you voters have moved out of your state when they haven't.
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Michel also said that they crosscheck that reports are corroborated by multiple sources before including them.
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CrossCheck Nigeria's purpose is to counter fake news — it identifies, verifies, and debunks misinformation on its site.
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Arizona has not sent any data to Crosscheck administrators since 85033, under Hobbs's predecessor, Michele Reagan (R).
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Secret Service agents must rely on club receptionists and other employees to crosscheck visitors, former officials said.
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Tavares was hurt later in the period, sent flying by a crosscheck from Rangers defenseman Marc Staal.
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States should discontinue Crosscheck and join ERIC, which has invested in state of the art data security.
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Crosscheck has demonstrated a careless approach to data security as described in recent ProPublica and Gizmodo articles.
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It can be used to crosscheck the results shown by the machine if there is a dispute.
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It would be difficult to overstate the carelessness with which Crosscheck handles the personal data of US voters.
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The internet address of the Crosscheck server was redacted in the Illinois records exposing the program's login credentials.
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But then he had a conversation with journalists from another newsroom who aren't involved in CrossCheck Nigeria's work.
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I want to say this again, and again, and again: The Interstate Crosscheck database has never been breached.
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If this data shows up for people in different states, Crosscheck flags it as a potential double registration.
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Yet 30 states participate in Crosscheck, and have wiped thousands of voters from the rolls as a result.
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The series supervisor, Don VanMassenhoven, said the major penalty was given because the crosscheck caused a significant injury.
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The initiative, called CrossCheck Nigeria, works as part of a coalition with the International Center for Investigative Reporting.
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The big lie told by pro-Crosscheck advocates is that Crosscheck's results are evidence of widespread voter fraud.
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Instead, all three states allow the use of a problematic multistate database called Crosscheck to conduct immediate purges.
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Most recently, nearly 1000 Kansans were exposed after data amassed for the Crosscheck program was mistakenly leaked in Florida.
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Bills currently in the New Hampshire and Illinois legislatures would, if passed, require state officials to withdraw from Crosscheck.
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The program, informally known as Crosscheck, was founded in 2005 by then-Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh (R).
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The Crosscheck program, which was launched by the Kansas Secretary of State's office, has been administered by Kobach since 2011.
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Henderson got a concussion of his own from the blindside hit, which Oldham wrote could not be called a crosscheck.
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Anderson describes Georgia's Exact Match system and the Interstate Crosscheck as modern incarnations of old efforts to restrict the vote.
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In 2005, Kansas joined with three other Midwestern states in a regional compact called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program.
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The Blues played without defenseman Robert Bortuzzo, who earned a four-game NHL suspension for injuring Arvidsson with a crosscheck.
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States should adopt the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) voter roll maintenance program and stop using Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck.
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But more broadly, I guess my advice would be to constantly crosscheck what you see and hear on the internet.
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The false "99 percent" headline is also paired with a study criticizing the information technology security systems around Crosscheck itself.
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Kobach has advocated the crosscheck of voter registration rolls with other lists, for example, of felons, double-registered, and deceased persons.
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In theory Crosscheck seems like a fine idea: States come together to see if there are duplicate names among registration lists.
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His second concussion of the season was diagnosed after Crosby took a crosscheck in the head from Capitals defenseman Matt Niskanen.
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The latter included data on financial transactions and a government contract that Avast was able to crosscheck since it is public record.
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According to records recently released by states participating in the program, Crosscheck has collected nearly 235 million voter records in 2750 alone.
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Though its methods have been roundly debunked by academics and election experts, 250 states took part in the Crosscheck program this year.
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Three year's worth of Crosscheck data was similarly compromised last fall, including the passwords that would have enabled anyone to access it.
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Annual fees vary, but ERIC's one-time $25,000 fee is what drove many states to the Crosscheck program in the first place.
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However, a recent study found the system's algorithm is very flawed: For every real double registration, Crosscheck flagged about 200 false positives.
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But Crosscheck became more controversial under Thornburgh's successor, Kris Kobach (R), who helped grow the program to 29 states across the country.
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But Dul said data that Arizona previously sent to Crosscheck administrators could still be used to cancel voter registrations in other states.
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Kobach has advocated the crosscheck of voter registration rolls with other lists—for example, of felons or double-registered or deceased persons.
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Crosscheck, which is spearheaded by Kansas' controversial Secretary of State Kris Kobach, has enlisted 30 mostly conservative states to check dual registrations.
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The missing data is essential to crosscheck leaked details sent to WADA with profiles of about 10,000 suspicious doping samples from Russia.
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Kobach set up his own organization, Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, to ferret out voters casting ballots in more than one place.
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They also argue that the database comparisons he wants to make will, like the Crosscheck program, vastly overestimate the potential for fraud.
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Passwords to decrypt voter files have been leaked on multiple occasions, as have credentials granting access to the Crosscheck servers that host them.
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Their analyses — which are collected in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Survey of Professional Forecasters — provide a useful crosscheck on government forecasts.
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County officials received rosters of potential Crosscheck "matches" without checking for accuracy, nor did they have sufficient time to conduct a thorough review.
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She could crosscheck their brain wave readouts, she thought, and see if the athletes, when healthy, processed sounds differently than the other students.
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Amzat, 4003, manages a news verification platform called CrossCheck Nigeria, a collaborative effort of 45 journalists from more than 15 newsrooms across the country.
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The system can crosscheck with database of student face images to verify who's present, with the attendance result generated in less than a minute.
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NOTES: Colorado LW Gabriel Landeskog served the third game of his four-game suspension for his crosscheck of Calgary's Matthew Tkachuk on Nov. 25.
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A tweet by Grimes last week about Kentucky not submitting voter data to Crosscheck initially puzzled activists who were unaware of the state's decision.
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Among the loudest critics is the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which says Kobach wants to institute a national system like Crosscheck.
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I crosscheck what I learn in the field with written data: official annals of the Tibetan regions, Chinese documents, and Tibetan and Chinese memoirs.
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Kobach also runs the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, a proprietary piece of software started by Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh in 2005.
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And they needed to take a very different path than another data-matching initiative, the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck System, which was already underway.
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Toronto got a one-man advantage with 11:38 left in the second after Brandon Carlo was called for a crosscheck on Andreas Johnsson.
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The Electronic Registration Information Center and Crosscheck both compare voting records across multiple states in an attempt to keep voter rolls up to date.
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Facebook also announced that it will support CrossCheck — an initiative that will allow users to submit questions and gather information from 16 French media partners.
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Kobach is a notorious exaggerator and recently claimed that the Crosscheck program is absolutely essential to the safeguarding the integrity of the nation's voter rolls.
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In Kansas, where Crosscheck is run, a bipartisan bill known as the Free State Elections Act was introduced this week and would end its participation.
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Correction: A previous version of this article stated that an Illinois official had expressed concern in a survey over Crosscheck potentially leaking Social Security digits.
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"I was just happy that (Simmonds) was still standing after the crosscheck he took to the side of the head," Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said.
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The law relies on the Kansas Secretary of State's Crosscheck system that matches voters by name and date of birth and flags potential duplicate voters.
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Panthers 5, Flyers 13 Jonathan Huberdeau scored a goal and later survived a crosscheck that drew blood as host Florida defeated Philadelphia in Sunrise, Fla.
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ERIC is managed and funded by a bipartisan board of 20 member states, while Crosscheck is run and paid for by Kansas, introducing potential partisanship.
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Investigations by Gizmodo and ProPublica two months ago revealed an alarming number of security flaws in the Crosscheck system and the network on which it exists.
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Mr Kobach hopes to nationalise his Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Programme, which brings 27 Republican states together in Kansas to compare voter rolls, says Ms Gupta.
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The WhatsApp component is new for election projects facilitated by First Draft, which previously designed CrossCheck, its award-winning collaboration focused on the 2017 French election.
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He gave the example of Crosscheck, which is a Kansas-sponsored program to check voter rolls for duplicate voters by compiling data from 26 other states.
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While he believes voter registration list maintenance is important, he says Kobach's Crosscheck program has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective and to produce false matches.
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A recent study by political scientists at Stanford University found that Kobach's Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program had 200 false positives for every actual double registration.
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Electronic voting platforms had been disabled by the government, and poll workers had to crosscheck voter identifications against census data using mobile phones, a painstaking process.
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Citizens will need better tools to assess the quality and accuracy of information, such as fact-checking apps that crosscheck information against recognized sources and databases.
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For years, he has operated an "Interstate Crosscheck" system, which purports to compare voter rolls in about 30 states, in order to identify possible double registrants.
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Then I crosscheck that with background references — not the people they list on their résumé, but I'll find people who've worked with them in the past.
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All eight states that use both the Electronic Registration Information Center and Crosscheck acknowledge that the former is the superior system for voter registration list maintenance.
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Perhaps this detail in Adams's column provides the answer to this puzzle: He claims that "more than five million potential duplicate voters" were identified by Crosscheck.
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Billy Li, the head of the Progressive Lawyers Group, a pro-democracy association, said the police would crosscheck the evidence with their DNA and fingerprint databases.
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Billy Li, the head of the Progressive Lawyers Group, a pro-democracy association, said the police would crosscheck the evidence with their DNA and fingerprint databases.
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The stated purpose of the program, known as the Interstate Crosscheck System, is to identify potential duplicate registrations among states and provide evidence of possible double voting.
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They not only confirm the findings contained in ProPublica's report, but further reveal an alarming array of previously unreported weaknesses in the network hosting the Crosscheck server.
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The State of Idaho, for instance, released not only a username and password granting access to the Crosscheck repository, but the IP address of the server itself.
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A single unsecured connection between the Secretary of State's network and the other networks hosted by the state may pose an imminent threat to Crosscheck, Netragard found.
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A study by a group of political scientists at Stanford published earlier this year found that Crosscheck highlighted 200 false matches for every one true double vote.
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In Game 7 of the same series, Pavelski took a crosscheck to the chest, collided with another skater, fell and hit his head hard on the ice.
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In fact, as part of standard procedure, after accelerating to a speed of 80 knots (92 mph) pilots crosscheck their instrumentation for discrepancies during the takeoff roll.
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Specifically it will be providing CrossCheck partners with access to a tool called CrowdTangle to help with early discovery and monitoring of social content relevant to the election.
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Pam Curtis, who inquired about the steps taken following Gizmodo's disclosure of vulnerabilities on the Arkansas network, which previously hosted Crosscheck data for roughly two months every year.
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First Draft, a nonprofit coalition of news and social media outlets, announced the new initiative, called "CrossCheck," to help verify online news stories regarding the French presidential election.
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas filed a class action lawsuit against Kobach in 2018, alleging that his office violated voters' privacy through the Crosscheck system.
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Last year, researchers at Stanford, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Microsoft Research concluded that Crosscheck produced a flood of false positives, raising the risk of disenfranchising legal voters.
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Dozens of the volunteers returned over the next three days to crosscheck them and input results from caucus worksheets that came in by email or through the app.
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The interstate Crosscheck program, which is overseen by Kobach's office, has lost control over voter data—including partial Social Security numbers—on several occasions over the past six months.
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"We have never had any security breach—ever—since the crosscheck program has existed," Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told the Kansas House Election Committee earlier this month.
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The Crosscheck program compares voter rolls to identify people who register and vote in multiple states — but for every actual double-voter it finds, it returns 200 false positives.
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Crosscheck purportedly compares registration lists across states, but it might flag a voter if only name and date of birth match, which is not precise enough to prevent mistakes.
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During a 2014 interview, for example, conservative political strategist Dick Morris told Fox News' Sean Hannity that Crosscheck represented "the first concrete evidence" of "massive voter fraud" in North Carolina.
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And while many CrossCheck journalists are still getting acquainted with the programs, he's confident that they'll be savvy users by the time election season reaches its peak intensity in January.
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And Gizmodo has collect half a dozen passwords that were used to decrypt Crosscheck data—all of which fell into the hands of the progressive Illinois activist group Indivisible Chicago.
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But for every multi-registrant identified, Crosscheck generates hundreds of false positives, according to a study last year by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Microsoft.
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Earlier this month, Google announced Crosscheck, a project involving roughly 20 French newsrooms and the First Draft Coalition, which aimed to help fact check news stories during the French elections.
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That accidental, yet vicious, crosscheck to Crosby's head appeared to spell doom for a player that has had his share of reported (and probably unreported) concussions during his NHL career.
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Instead it plans to rely on tools like the Interstate Crosscheck System, a notoriously inaccurate antifraud data program championed by Kris Kobach, the commission's vice chairman and crusader in chief.
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The state of Indiana is now facing a federal lawsuit to block their future use of Crosscheck, despite the plaintiff's failure to produce a single voter that was negatively impacted.
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What's more, multiple sets of login credentials, which could be used by virtually anyone to directly access the Crosscheck system—as well the encrypted voter data it contains—have been compromised.
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After Amzat told other CrossCheck journalists about what he'd heard about the "Buhari is dead" rumor, the coalition decided to look into the story and published an article debunking it Nov.
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This error rate means a lot of work for the states participating in Crosscheck to identify voter fraud—finding actual multi-registrants is akin finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.
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In a letter to the program's administrators, state elections director Sambo Dul formally gave notice that the state would end its decade-long affiliation with the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck program.
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Kirda said he finds the concept "very creepy" and worries bad actors could potentially use the app to identify strangers, and then crosscheck that information online to try to scam them.
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At that time, Southwest installed the AOA Indicators on the PFD, resulting in the activation of the AOA Disagree lights - both items now serve as an additional crosscheck on all MAX aircraft.
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Facebook is also supporting a separate initiative launched by Google dubbed "CrossCheck" which calls on users to submit links to contested content to a dedicated website so that it can be investigated.
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Zakir KhanJanuary 11, 2016 So based on what Eliott told me, it seems likely that Epic Games simply decided it was worth it for them to crosscheck registrants with the SDN list.
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While social media platforms like Twitter and Youtube have access to a vast database of copyrighted material they can easily crosscheck posts' images, video, and audio against, no such tool exists for hate.
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While the Crosscheck server appears to be situated behind a WatchGuard appliance—a firewall placed between the server and the rest of the internet—it only provides the "appearance of security," Desautels said.
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IBAMA's Cruz said the onus should be on the meat companies to check their livestock sources properly with modern technology available today and crosscheck with satellite imagery publicly posted on the agency's website.
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Basically, they map people's entire genomes and crosscheck that information against health outcomes to see whether people with gene snippet A also have heart disease or Alzheimer's or breast cancer or another disease.
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Photo: GettyThe State of Kentucky has pulled out of the Interstate Crosscheck System, Gizmodo has learned, making it the eighth state to quit the program so far—even though it cost nothing to participate.
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Brett Parker, a Democrat who serves on the state's House Elections Committee, told Gizmodo that the Secretary of State's office has failed in its repeated attempts to convince lawmakers that Crosscheck is truly secure.
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That means we must guarantee the unimpeded right to vote and end racist voter suppression schemes that cost millions of Americans the right to vote, including voter ID laws, felon disenfranchisement, and Interstate Crosscheck.
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As Kansas's secretary of state, Kobach pushed through a voter ID law that lowered turnout by 122,000 votes, and adopted the Interstate Crosscheck System to purge voter rolls, moves that disproportionately affected nonwhite voters.
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EditorsNote: Corrects grammatical issues throughout Jonathan Huberdeau scored a goal and later survived a crosscheck that drew blood as his Florida Panthers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 210-223 on Tuesday night at Sunrise, Fla.
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Crosscheck was begun in 2005, led by Ron Thornburgh, then the Republican secretary of state in Kansas, and later championed by Kris Kobach, the Republican secretary of state who is running for governor of Kansas.
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Software engineer Brian McClendon, a former vice president at Google and Uber who is running to take over Kobach's seat as a Democrat, told Gizmodo that, if elected, he wouldn't hesitate to end the Crosscheck program.
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I also used Google Maps to crosscheck the location of the drone when it was in flight, and was able to confirm using DJI's own no-fly zone database that it was indeed in restricted airspace.
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ThinkProgress, a progressive news website, claims he was involved in the use of a Crosscheck system in 2013 to remove 57,000 voters from Virginia's rolls whose registration data matched that of someone in a different state.
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The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program is a database used, in theory, to detect potential cases of people voting in more than one location by identifying matches of names and dates of birth in different states.
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COLUMBUS FORWARD SUSPENDED Columbus Blue Jackets forward Matt Calvert was suspended for one game for his crosscheck to Pittsburgh's Tom Kuhnhackl late in the third period of a Game 2 loss to the Penguins on Friday.
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Eakin was given a five-minute major and game misconduct for a crosscheck on Joe Pavelski at the end of a faceoff that sent Pavelski pin-wheeling and ended with Pavelski smashing his head off the ice.
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Gizmodo has learned that while some of the data sets were encrypted prior to being transferred, the passwords to decrypt three year's worth of voter files, belonging to every state participating in Crosscheck, have likewise been exposed.
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Earlier this month, both Facebook and Google announced an initiative called CrossCheck, under which 20 French media companies and the First Draft Coalition will work together to debunk false news stories related to France's upcoming presidential election.
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Sam Dubberly, who runs Crosscheck, told VICE News that of the dozens of stories his project has debunked, Macron has been featured more than other any candidate, while the topics of security, religion, and immigration have dominated.
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And states can't easily check or investigate whether people are mailing in a ballot in one state and voting in another because there is no national voter file kept by the federal government to crosscheck people's names.
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For example, a member of the CrossCheck team found an account linked to the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Facebook had posted an image of US President Donald Trump, appearing to endorse PDP leader Abubakar Atiku.
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Crosscheck has been widely criticized as inaccurate; one analysis found that of the 7.2 million potential double voters the program had identified, no more than four were actually accused of deliberately registering or voting in two states.
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Furthermore, a spokesperson for Indivisible Chicago told Gizmodo that using public record requests, the group was also able to obtain the current username and password used by the Illinois State Board of Election to access the Crosscheck system.
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The very non-specific category controls whether Google can pinpoint your exact GPS coordinates through Maps data and browser searches and, as today's news highlights, whether it can crosscheck your offline purchases with your online ad-related activity.
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" The inflated "five million" statistic is a direct result of Crosscheck's decision to continue using a discredited matching algorithm, which Crosscheck documentation describes as "when the first names, last names and dates of birth in two records match.
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In fact, an oft-cited paper published this year by researchers at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Microsoft, revealed that Crosscheck is capable of producing false positives for double voters roughly 99 percent of the time.
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Fake news has become so prevalent in France that First Draft, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting disinformation and propaganda, launched CrossCheck, a collaborative effort to correct the myriad of fake political news stories being shared on social media there.
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Moreover, many states have joined cross check database systems such as the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) or the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program which allow for catching voters who are attempting to vote in more than one state.
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Living up to The Times's strict guidelines on using anonymous sources means extra efforts to reach out to and crosscheck sources, always trying to find ones willing to go on the record — and, very often, letting stories go unpublished.
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He is the leading architect of the "Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program," a tool that allows states to share their voter registration data with the harmless sounding goal of identifying people who are registered in more than one state.
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Earlier this year, a judge ruled that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), whose office created the Crosscheck program, could not demand proof of citizenship beyond what is required under federal law before someone is registered to vote.
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According to one team of researchers, the Crosscheck program — which was vastly expanded by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a staunch Trump ally currently running to be the state's governor — had an astonishing error rate of 99 percent.
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We noted that the paper-based backup system, if implemented properly, would allow verification of the ballots cast and that agents of political parties had been at most stations and received copies they could crosscheck with the official results.
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In November, nonpartisan public interest organization Common Cause, filed a lawsuit with the ACLU that challenged an Indiana law which allowed local election officials to immediately remove – without notice or waiting period – registered voters who matched in the Crosscheck program.
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Voter rights advocates long argued that Crosscheck was a partisan effort to purge voter rolls of likely Democratic voters, and a recent study by the Brennan Center for Justice found a rising rate of people being removed from voter rolls.
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In 2013, after Virginia joined Crosscheck, and in the midst of a hotly contested governor's race, the state board of elections sent counties a list of more than 57,000 voters to purge because they were supposedly registered in other states.
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Advocacy for ERIC and against Crosscheck is simply common sense for those who understand that accurate voter rolls improve Election Day logistics and prevent double voting, and that massive databases of American voter information represent a significant national security risk.
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Because of that inherent randomization, scientists could crosscheck the numbers of people with or without a snippet related to a health risk or behavior, such as, say, a strong likelihood to exercise, against another health outcome, such as severe depression.
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Documents obtained under state transparency laws by the anti-Trump group Indivisible Chicago revealed that Crosscheck had emailed Illinois election officials both the username and password to the program's FTP server—credentials that Illinois neglected to redact before releasing the emails publicly.
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For the purpose of identifying a unique voter, you need more than just a name and date of birth; however, many states are hesitant to turn over additional voter information to Crosscheck, which has earned a reputation for improperly handling sensitive data.
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Whether it's incompetence, oversight, carelessness, or cyberwarfare, the end result to those 900-plus people is the same: Their personal data is out there, and it would not be if they had not come up as false positives on this Crosscheck program.
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Kobach, who has been sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in four different voting rights lawsuits, expanded an anti-voter-fraud mechanism called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which extended to include 30 states since he was elected in 2010.
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Less than an hour before puck drop, the Maple Leafs learned center Nazem Kadri had been suspended for the rest of the series for his vicious crosscheck to the head of Bruins winger Jake DeBrusk in the third period of Game 2.
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Kansas officials reportedly agreed to circulate—before the end of 2017—updated guidelines to Crosscheck participating states outlining how changes to the program will keep voter data (including tens of thousands of Social Security numbers submitted by several states) secure from hackers, breaches, and leaks.
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Here's the relevant portion of the interview, which was edited for clarity:Gizmodo: I'm curious, in light of the recent incident in Florida, if your office is still standing by the statement that there's 'never been a security breach ever since the Crosscheck program has existed.
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Earlier this month, reports revealed that nearly 1,000 Kansans identified by Crosscheck had the last four digits of their Social Security numbers exposed in Florida, and other voter files and the passwords to decrypt them fell into the hands of unauthorized third parties last fall.
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Kobach's Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which he created in 2005 and purports to enhance accuracy by allowing states to compare their voter rolls, has been debunked by experts who say it misidentifies 200 legitimate voters as double-registered for every one improperly registered voter.
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Furthermore, the IP addresses for the firewalls of the non-confirmed systems all appear to be in counties that also use ES&S voting machines, according to a crosscheck against a web tool operated by Verified Voting, a nonprofit that tracks voting machine use around the country.
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Mr. Kobach, who prepared the request without input from at least some of the other commissioners, has a history with this issue: He already oversees the Interstate Crosscheck program that compares voter rolls from some 30 states in an effort to turn up people who vote in two states.
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It will also be helping to promote CrossCheck reports and resources on its platform to "relevant audiences", through digital literacy campaigns "helping to explain the verification process and keeping the voting public up to date with confirmed and disputed information relating to the election", according to a Google press release.
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The Crosscheck program, which rolls out at the start of each year and strives to identify possible double voter registrations, previously relied on a server maintained by the Arkansas Secretary of State's office to send and receive sensitive voter data from more than two dozen states participating in the program.
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The international game, with its larger sheet of ice and less banging than is typical in the United States, suits Donato's talents, although with eight minutes to go Friday, he took a crosscheck to the neck from Slovakia's, 6-foot-4, 240-pound defenseman Michal Cajkovsky and popped right back up.
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So-called Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 442, which was approved by lawmakers in 2017, amends the state's voter registration laws to allow elections officials to remove from the rolls any voters found registered in another state by a system called Crosscheck that is administered by the Kansas Secretary of State.
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In fact, his Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck program, which he introduced in 2005 and was used by 30 states as of May 2016, utilizes that exact same strategy — matching individuals who share a name and birthdate — to purge voting records of people who are supposedly registered to vote in more than one state.
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In 2014, after North Carolina joined Crosscheck, the head of the state board of elections reported that in the 0003 general election, there were 35,750 voters in the state whose first and last names and dates of birth matched those of individuals who voted in the same election in a different state.
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" (The news organization Mississippi Today reported on Thursday that Mississippi has been providing this data to Interstate Crosscheck, a Kansas initiative with similar goals that Mr. Kobach runs.) The commission fired back on Wednesday, issuing a statement that called the dust-up "fake news" arising from "obstruction by a handful of state politicians.
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Photo: APSecurity on the network that will host the Interstate Crosscheck Program this year is markedly improved from that of its previous host, according to a top security firm, and soon the Department of Homeland Security will lend its own expertise to hardening the network as part of its review of state election systems.
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On Friday, a federal judge ruled against an Indiana law passed earlier this year that would have canceled registrations for anyone whose name was flagged by the Crosscheck program, an interstate compact by which states cross-reference their voter lists against each other to weed out those who might be registered in multiple states.
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The trade-off in locating these individuals—whose handful of votes could in no way impact the results of an election, in which the victory margin is measured in hundreds, if not tens of thousands of votes—is that a program like Crosscheck would almost certainly risk exposing millions of people to an Equifax-level breach.
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To create this national voter database — a seeming federal extension of the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck — the commission wants full names, addresses, dates of birth, partial social security numbers, voting histories, and even felony records (hopefully including each State's laws about post-felony voting – or in Maine and Vermont, the right to vote while still incarcerated).
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Amzat told BuzzFeed News over the phone from Abuja, the capital, that even though the 76-year-old president had suffered ailments throughout his tenure (and regularly takes long trips out of the country to get treated abroad), that he and his colleagues at CrossCheck had denounced the conspiracy theory so quickly, they hadn't realized how many people around them actually believed it.
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Google, via its News Lab arm, is backing a collaborative verification platform called CrossCheck, that will launch in France on February 27 and continue through the French elections — bringing together a raft of local media companies to power a website where members of the public can report content they believe to be dubious, or ask questions for CrossCheck's media partners to respond to.
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Mr. Kemp also used Exact Match, a version of the infamous Crosscheck database, to put tens of thousands of citizens in electoral limbo, refusing to place them on the rolls if an errant hyphen, a stray letter or a typographical error on someone's voter registration card didn't match the records of the state's driver's license bureau or the Social Security office.
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In that case, we filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Indiana chapters of the NAACP and League of Women Voters, arguing that the Hoosier State was improperly using a multistate voter database system called Crosscheck -- which is championed by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (chairman of Trump's defunct voter fraud commission and a known proponent of the myth of widespread voter fraud).
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Turning that budget into a multipart, multihour experience is a job not unlike being the C.E.O. of a small company: The person in charge has to set the vision, crosscheck the delightful details to ensure they're not featured on blogs about "wedding trends that are so last year," find caterers who will leave neither the Whole 30 crowd nor the newly minted vegans starving, and ensure that it's all executed on time and with panache.
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The letter, though, does include goals like preventing voter intimidation and disenfranchisement, even if those were not mentioned in the executive order creating the commission to examine voting integrity Kobach pioneered the growth of a multi-state program, called Crosscheck, that has been criticized by voting rights advocates for using incomplete information that generates thousands of false positives,or false matches of different people as the same voter, perpetuating a myth of widespread fraud and resulting in unjustified purging of voters from rolls.
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Crosscheck is slowly being admitted into the canon of grasping rationalizations for why Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE beat Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE in 2016.
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The Crosscheck system is administered by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who previously led President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's commission to investigate his unfounded claims that millions of illegal votes were cast in Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonThe exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Poll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado Soft levels of support mark this year's Democratic primary MORE's favor during the 2016 election.
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