Article 36M2S Indiana's voter-purging software removes voters without notice, is wrong 99% of the time

Indiana's voter-purging software removes voters without notice, is wrong 99% of the time

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Cory Doctorow
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The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program identifies possible duplicate voters by looking at registrations by people with the same name and birthdate; a joint study by researchers at Harvard, Yale, and Microsoft found that 99% of the people it identifies as duplicate voters are not duplicate voters -- that is, it has a 99% false positive rate. (more")

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