WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
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Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#2Related: "Time is passed, votes are sealed" (http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article174773...).
How convenient.
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#3Related: "Time is passed, votes are sealed" ( http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article174773... ). How convenient.
Wow, that seems pretty absurd. 5 days and then sealed? Ridiculous.
What is the harm of releasing the paper records? Is there any reasonable argument for such strict measures?
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#4Related: "Time is passed, votes are sealed" ( http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article174773... ). How convenient.
"Clarkson said she filed a request for a recount after the 2014 election but was rebuffed by the Sedgwick County Election Office. Clarkson said she was told that only candidates could file for a recount of their own races."
It looks like she began trying to get the records during the time frame, but was shut out by local party officials. Big surprise. I'm from KC (Missouri, but we get local Kansas news as much as they get ours). This is pretty standard Kris Kobach shenanigans. On one hand he's removing tons of voters from the rolls to prevent "voter fraud" while simultaneously helping stonewall an audit of votes to detect election fraud.
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#5Related: "Time is passed, votes are sealed" ( http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article174773... ). How convenient.
Wow, that seems pretty absurd. 5 days and then sealed? Ridiculous. What is the harm of releasing the paper records? Is there any reasonable argument for such strict measures?
It's good to be king, no matter how small is your kingdom.
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#6I was all behind this until a) she only thinks its wrong when Republicans get more votes and b) when it was not localized to a particular area of Kansas but instead claimed it nationwide.
as in, how can it be people cannot vote correctly... back to Florida we go
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#7Related: "Time is passed, votes are sealed" ( http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article174773... ). How convenient.
What's interesting, is that Kobach seems to be trying to avoid having any possibility of fraud investigated on their end, but then they push through voter ID laws because of voter fraud.
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#8I was all behind this until a) she only thinks its wrong when Republicans get more votes and b) when it was not localized to a particular area of Kansas but instead claimed it nationwide. as in, how can it be people cannot vote correctly... back to Florida we go
Despite 2014 being very good for Republicans in general, the Kansas governor was unpopular. Approval ratings well below 50%. The Kansas Secretary of State reacted by making some very suspicious moves, including throwing a substantially larger-than-normal number of voters off the rolls. This is a situation where there was possible corruption and members of both parties should be concerned.
Any transparency and open records should be welcomed, no matter what the partisan leanings of the researcher requesting them.
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#9I was all behind this until a) she only thinks its wrong when Republicans get more votes and b) when it was not localized to a particular area of Kansas but instead claimed it nationwide. as in, how can it be people cannot vote correctly... back to Florida we go
I'm with you on the nationwide aspect- the apparent consistency of the pattern suggests something non-malicious to me. Coordinating a multi-state election fraud would be very hard and disastrous if found out. My SWAG at what might be happening- large precincts end up having long lines, dissuading marginal voters. As a result, dedicated voters, which according to my politics courses tend older and Republican, are disproportionately represented in the final tally.
Re: WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
#10This is, or would be, if the data were made available, good news. Either the machines always tallied within epsilon percent of what is on the audit tapes, or they made significant errors either way, and we should know about it.