November 6, 2017 - End CrossCheck: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About CrossCheck, And A Lot You’d Rather Not.
Illinois, which had its voter rolls penetrated and just passed Automatic Voter Registration on its second try, now has a terrific energetic group of activists in Indivisible Chicago fighting to get IL to exit CrossCheck. IL is also a member of ERIC, the Election Registration Information Center, run by the non-partisan Pew Charitable Trust. ERIC’s the Belinda the Good Witch of CrossCheck, and gets the de-duplication right as opposed to CrossCheck’s 200 false positives for every real hit.
Indivisible Chicago rocks. CO, NV, OH and VA — now you too, you who belong to both ERIC and CrossCheck, need to exit CrossCheck now.
If you want the in-depth version of what CrossCheck does, watch The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, by Greg Palast. It’s a little hokey, he’s always wearing this Sam Spade outfit and hat, still, his reporting’s the real deal.
https://www.endcrosscheck.com/foia-security/
(If you listen to the piece on This American Life just below, you’ll start to understand what is confusing (to put a good spin on it) those who want to use CrossCheck to deduplicate.)