KKK is stealing your American voting rights with Dee Hunter (Fly Guy Podcast)

Summary: This CrossCheck anti-voter-fraud program gets it wrong over 99 percent of the time. The GOP wants to take it nationwide. Activist Dee Hunter discusses the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program introduced by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (Kansas' Kris Kobach). According to Dee Hunter, President Trump is backing Kobach's efforts which can remove millions of America's Non-Whites from being able to vote in elections. Statistical analysis found that African-American, Latino and Asian names predominate, a simple result of the Crosscheck matching process, which spews out little more than a bunch of common names. No surprise: The U.S. Census data shows that minorities are over-represented in 85 of 100 of the most common last names. If your name is Washington, there's an 89 percent chance you're African-American. If your last name is Hernandez, there's a 94 percent chance you're Hispanic. If your name is Kim, there's a 95 percent chance you're Asian. The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program will remove voters based upon their names. 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 for prosecution, as alleged cases of double voting in multiple states turned out to be clerical and other errors. One tally found that while the program has flagged 7.2 million possible double registrants, no more than four have actually been charged with deliberate double registration or double voting. Meanwhile, some states including Florida dropped out of the program due to doubts about the reliability of its data — though others, including the swing state of North Carolina, joined despite those issues.<br><br>Dee Hunter is the Executive Director of The Civil Rights Center, a Washington, DC based public advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the public interest in the areas of criminal justice reform and voting rights. The Civil Rights Center is a national leader in the fight to end the Crosscheck Program, a discriminatory GOP mass voter purge program.<br><br>Hunter has a long history of political advocacy and organizing. He has worked on numerous political campaigns and for several non-profit political organizations including Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition, Ralph Nader’s, Appleseed Foundation, Americans For Democratic Action, The American Nurses Association and SEIU. He is currently a Palast Foundation Fellow.<br><br>Hunter studied political science at American University and is a graduate of Howard University School of Law. He is currently a MDiv candidate at Wesley Theological Seminary.