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Why Does DOGE Need Access to Voter Rolls?

What does it have to do with “government efficiency”?

Trump’s new Executive Order, which orders states to open their voter files to DOGE Administrator Elon Musk, threatens the return of the infamous, flawed-by-design Interstate Crosscheck purge program. Courts had already struck down Crosscheck because it wildly tagged over three million Americans as potential “multiple” voters.

In imitation of the Crosscheck program, Trump’s order authorizes Musk’s DOGE-hounds to go into voter files and cross-check names between the states to tag potential double voters. They won’t find any, because, according to Professor Lorraine Minnite, author of The Myth of Voter Fraud, the chance of someone voting twice is far less than the chance of being killed by lightning. Despite the facts, Interstate Crosscheck cost several hundred thousand voters their rights in 2016. (Now you know how Trump won that one.) Trump-Musk wants to do it again.

Not incidentally, the three million voters targeted by Interstate Crosscheck (and now, the new Executive Order) were overwhelmingly Americans of color. (Fun fact: 90 of the 100 most common surnames in the US, according to the Census, are “minority” names – Garcia, Jackson, Ho, etc.— so any name-matching purge algorithm will wrongly capture non-white voters by a factor of several hundred percent.)

And who came up with the Interstate Crosscheck program, clearly the model for the new Order? Once again, Kris Kobach, now Kansas Attorney General, who was the vote-fraud “expert” at the Heritage Foundation, the chaps who gave us Project 2025.

To learn more about how the Trump/DOGE Executive Order will help Crosscheck climb out of its crypt, read my special report.

Watch the full, hour long, Status Coup News interview with Zeynab Day via their YouTube Channel.

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