Here's the important Kansas voting machine irregularity story without all the CT

[uhnope]

Wichita State mathematician sues Kris Kobach, Sedgwick County elections commissioner seeking to audit voting machines

WICHITA — A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines, an effort to explain statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts across the country.

Beth Clarkson, chief statistician for the university’s National Institute for Aviation Research, filed the open records lawsuit in Sedgwick County District Court as part of her personal quest to find the answer to an unexplained pattern that transcends elections and states. The lawsuit was amended Wednesday to name Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Sedgwick County Elections Commissioner Tabitha Lehman.

Clarkson, a certified quality engineer with a Ph.D. in statistics, has analyzed election returns in Kansas and elsewhere over several elections that indicate “a statistically significant” pattern where the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.

While it is well-recognized that smaller, rural precincts tend to lean Republican, statisticians have been unable to explain the consistent pattern favoring the Republicans that trends upward as the number of votes cast in a precinct or other voting unit goes up. In primaries, the favored candidate appears to always be the Republican establishment candidate, above a tea party challenger. And the upward trend for Republicans occurs once a voting unit reaches roughly 500 votes.

Read more http://cjonline.com/news/2015-04-01/wichita-state-mathematician-sues-kris-kobach-sedgwick-county-elections-commisioner

[SusanCalvin]

1. Maybe she'll be the one

who finally blows this thing wide open. I hope so.

[SidDithers]

2. DU rec...

DU should be a CT-free zone.

Sid

[hunter]

7. Easier said than done.

Sometimes It seems that for every CT loon, there is a coldly calculating agent pretending to be a CT loon.

Obscuring reality, Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, is big business.

Elections in the U.S.A. are dirty, always have been, but it's also true that half the voters are below average in their ability to sniff out grifter and meat puppet politicians.

Furthermore a shocking number of U.S. Americans are innumerate and scientifically illiterate to the point where a million, billion, or trillion are just big-ass numbers, maybe somewhere just beyond their six thousand year old universe...

[Mbrow]

3. K&R

[Scuba]

4. Does any reasonable person doubt that e-voting machines can be manipulated?

[Stevepol]

5. And I don't think any statistician

that has seriously studied the results of elections where the vote is counted by electronic voting machines doubts that the machines ARE being manipulated.

[REP]

6. Thanks for the link!