Indiana's voter-purging software removes voters without notice, is wrong 99% of the time
by Cory Doctorow from on (#36M2S)
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")