Idaho will revisit being part of 'sloppy' voter fraud program, says secretary of state

Idaho Secretary State Lawerence Denney says he “wasn’t even aware of” security concerns and other issues surrounding Idaho’s participation in the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program until after he read an Idaho Statesman article posted online Thursday.

Crosscheck is a multistate program run by the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office that annually collects voter registration data, including such personal data as birth dates and partial Social Security numbers. It then compares them in search of duplicate registrations and voter fraud.

But the program has produced false positives in Idaho and other states, and public record requests have uncovered a number of cybersecurity concerns regarding its server, housed in Arkansas. The information given to the program includes voter data that can’t be shared through a public records request, and was denied to a Trump administration commission investigating voter fraud earlier this summer.

“We’ve done our research after we read the article,” Denney told the Statesman on Tuesday.

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