Civil rights activists have sued the Indiana Election Division and associated officials over a law the state recently established allowing county officials to purge voter registrations immediately based on a database program that a new study found is 99 percent inaccurate. The American Civil Liberties Union and nonpartisan organization Common Cause Indiana filed a federal lawsuit Friday alleging that a law Indiana implemented in July “permits or requires Indiana counties to ignore the mandatory procedures and protections in the (National Voter Registration Act), resulting in non-uniform, discriminatory, and illegal cancellations of Indiana voter registrations.” Under Indiana’s new law, county officials no longer have to wait through a notice period to get rid of voters flagged through the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which identifies people in different states with the same name and birthdate.
Critics say the database—the brainchild of Kris Kobach, the de facto head of a voter fraud commission President Donald Trump created to find evidence that millions of noncitizens voted in the 2016 election—is fraught with error and disproportionately targets people of color who share the same last name more commonly than white Americans.
In their suit, the civil rights groups cite a study published last Tuesday by researchers from Harvard University, Yale Law School, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University and Microsoft, which found that for every legitimate instance of double registration, the crosscheck database incorrectly identified 200 voters who were registered in only one state.
Full Article: Trump Election Fraud Commissioner’s System Purges Voters With A Database That Never Works, Lawsuit Says.