On December 13, 2016, Greg Palast hand-delivered the petition with 50,000 signatures to The Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

Watch the video.

A petition to release the names of voters on the “Interstate Crosscheck” Purge List

To: Office of the Attorney General, Loretta E. Lynch

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20530-0001

In his Rolling Stone investigation Greg Palast revealed that a program to prevent alleged voter fraud, “Interstate Crosscheck,” has wrongly tagged voters listing them as registering in two states or voting in two states, a felony crime. The suspect list of potential criminals contains an astonishing SEVEN MILLION NAMES—naming ONE IN SEVEN voters of color in the Crosscheck states.

While partisan officials have kept the list confidential, Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast obtained over one million of the accused.

The ONLY evidence that you have voted or registered in two states is that you share a first name and last name with another voter. A typical example: Maria ISABEL Hernandez of Virginia is supposedly the same voter as Maria CRISTINA Hernandez of Louisiana.

As many as one million may lose their right to vote in the election.

Experts have stated the Crosscheck system, directed for 30 states by the highly partisan Secretary of State of Kansas, is “dangerously biased against minorities.” As the great civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery said of Crosscheck, “This is Jim Crow all over again.”

From:

We, the undersigned. The American public demand an investigation of Crosscheck’s racially-biased purge operation — and the release of the entire list of the seven million Americans suspected of voting or registering in two states..

Upon reaching 50,000 co-signers our team at the Palast Investigative Fund will hand deliver the names to your office – and demand that your Civil Rights division do a full investigation into the Interstate Crosscheck program.



Signed,

Congressman Alcee Hastings, Congressional Black Caucus

Hon. Keith Ellison, US Congressman

Martin Luther King III

Santiago Juarez, AMPARO Legal Services

Dr. Wilmer Leon, Sirius FM

Bill Gallegos, Climate Justice, Communities for a Better Environment

Taz Ahmed, 18 Million Rising

Mimi Kennedy, People Demanding Action

Medea Benjamin, Code Pink