CROSSCHECK II-Val DiGiorgio, PA 7th Pat Meehan, Andy Reilly, Mike Puppio: REPUBLICAN JIM CROW THUGS

Photos by Zach D. Roberts for Al Jazeera America

The Republican Party has more sophisticated methods of stopping voters, they’ve moved on from the 1950s when they beat up voters in South Philly.

"Days after searching the Delaware County office of a Democratic grassroots organization for evidence of voter-registration fraud, state police on Thursday raided a second office - this one in Philadelphia. 

 Agents executed the warrant at FieldWorks LLC's office in North Philadelphia after 5 p.m., seeking, among other things, forms that could be used to "construct fraudulent voter registration forms" and "completed voter registration forms containing same or similar identifying information of individuals on multiple forms," court documents show.  

As in the raid in Norwood, the latest warrant said investigators from the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office suspected "tampering with public records or information" or violations of an act that regulates military and overseas ballots.  

No charges have been filed against FieldWorks, a Washington-based organization, and it has pledged to cooperate with investigators. People familiar with the probe say there is currently no evidence pointing toward an effort to cast illegal or fraudulent ballots in next week's election..."

In 2014 the Interstate Crosscheck System that supposedly found 3 ½ million people that voted  twice and no charges were filed. 

And no charges will be filed against “FeildWorks”.

This is just one more of many, many instances of massive election fraud by Republican election officials.

"State elections officials maintain they would not forward registration applications to counties that had been delivered or postmarked after the state deadline. "The Department of State received voter registrations from FieldWorks by the deadline," a spokeswoman reiterated Thursday.  

The issue will get new life again Friday. That's when the Delaware County Voter Registration Commission - composed of two Republicans and one Democrat - has called a meeting to discuss the 7,000 forms in question...

Of those, Meehan also cited applications from 52 voters registered at Delaware County addresses that he said do not exist, and forms from one apparent voter who appeared to be registered nine times at five different addresses."

There's a good chance that "apparent voter who appeared to be registered nine times at five different addresses" had a name like: William Jackson, or William Washington, or William Jackson Jr. or William Washington Jr. Or maybe Michael Kim or Jose Garcia.

 philly.com

State police raid Philly office as voter registration probe grows

by Caitlin McCabe, Craig R. McCoy, and Angela Couloumbis, STAFF WRITERS

"When Donald Trump claimed, "the election's going to be rigged," he wasn't entirely wrong. But the threat was not, as Trump warned, from Americans committing the crime of "voting many, many times." What's far more likely to undermine democracy in November is the culmination of a decade-long Republican effort to disenfranchise voters under the guise of battling voter fraud. The latest tool: Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of citizens whom they allege could be registered in more than one state – thus potentially able to cast multiple ballots – and eligible to be purged from the voter rolls. 

The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential. But Rolling Stone obtained a portion of the list and the names of 1 million targeted voters. 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. 

Like all weapons of vote suppression, Crosscheck is a response to the imaginary menace of mass voter fraud. In the mid-2000s, after the Florida-recount debacle, the Bush administration launched a five-year investigation into the allegedly rampant crime but found scant evidence of wrongdoing. Still, the GOP has perpetuated the myth in every national election since. Recently, North Carolina Board of Elections chief Kim Strach testified to her legislature that 35,750 voters are "registered in North Carolina and another state and voted in both in the 2012 general election." [Editor’s note: This quote was taken from the power point that accompanied Strach’s testimony. In a subsequent letter, she informed us that during her presentation she "stressed that we were not suggesting that 35,750 voters had committed any type of fraud. My testimony was that the data we received from the Crosscheck Program showed that in the 2012 general election, there were 35,750 people who voted in North Carolina whose first and last names and dates of birth matched persons who voted in the same election in another state.”] Yet despite hiring an ex-FBI agent to lead the hunt, the state has charged exactly zero double voters from the Crosscheck list. Nevertheless, tens of thousands face the loss of their ability to vote – all for the sake of preventing a crime that rarely happens."

FROM:

The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters

Will an anti-voter-fraud program designed by one of Trump's advisers deny tens of thousands their right to vote in November?

August 24, 2016

Al Jazeera America 

Jim Crow returns
Millions of minority voters threatened by electoral purge