Meet The Kansas Woman Who Exposed Security Flaws In Kris Kobach's Voter Fraud Tool

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http://www.kcur.org/post/meet-kansas-woman-who-exposed-security-flaws-kris-kobachs-voter-fraud-tool

By PEGGY LOWE
KCUR.org
OCT 21, 2018

Come in and sit down at Anita Parsa's kitchen table. Help yourself to the 
chocolate chip cookies and she'll get you an iced tea. Might as well make 
yourself comfortable.

Because for the next hour, she's going to school you on a massive 
voter-tracking program run by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

"I like to figure out puzzles," Parsa says. "I like to crack things, and 
that’s what this is all about."

This particular puzzle was Kobach's Interstate Crosscheck system, which 
holds voter registration data for 25 states. A list of more than 85 
million voters, it purports to catch election fraud by weeding out double 
voting.

Crosscheck reportedly provided the numbers behind President Donald Trump's 
baseless claim, after the 2016 election, that he would have won the 
popular vote "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally" -- 
an assertion that Kobach had helped fuel.

After his inauguration, when Trump appointed Kobach, with Vice President 
Mike Pence, to lead his now-defunct Presidential Advisory Commission on 
Election Integrity, Kobach attempted to take the Crosscheck model 
national. His idea was to get federal jury-service data to identify 
duplicate voter registrations, according to public documents.

Enter Parsa, a stay-at-home mom from Mission Hills, whose tenacious work 
and Twitter skills ultimately led the Department of Homeland Security to 
investigate the cybersecurity of Kobach's favorite tool, and whose efforts 
have states thinking twice about participating in a system that has proven 
to be inaccurate and inefficient.

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