"This Isn't a Mirage" op-ed in the Salina Journal re: last Kansas election

[sketchy]

link:
http://www.salina.com/opinion/editorials/this-isn-t-a-mirage/article_37b79a70-f76a-5615-a9c9-229c7111dedb.html

from the article:
"Secretary of State Kris Kobach has built his political career promising gullible Kansas voters that voter fraud is a problem and he’s just the guy to stop it."

"So it is amazing to us that when a Wichita mathematician found statistical anomalies in voting patterns in the last Kansas general election results, Kobach refused her request for paper tapes from electronic voting machines.

Beth Clarkson, who has a Ph.D. in statistics, has analyzed election returns in Kansas and elsewhere over several elections and found a “statistically significant” pattern in which the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.

The patterns show either a built-in error in the Kansas voting system, or broad-scale fraud, or are “indicating a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling.” (Remember the polls showing Davis winning the governor race?)"

more at the link

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Of course, this has received near-zero media attention.

[Stevepol]

1. Just one more example

of how this critical problem continues to stay under the radar. Unless and until the Dems realize how important it is to have the vote counted in an open and transparent way by requiring audits and fair recounts when necessary (or even possible). When Alvin Greene (may have the name wrong) won the Democratic primary in SC after spending absolutely no money on campaigning and doing absolutely zero campaigning and received about 65% of the vote AND THEN the Dem party in SC refused to re-run the primary or demand a recount with what paper was available (after an array of computer scientists testified in front of them that this was almost certainly a computer failure of some kind), I have stopped paying any attention to this. The Repubs have learned that they can cheat w/o the least concern about being caught. The Dems in general just don't care or want to ignore it or pretend it's not happening.

Hand-Counted Paper Ballots = the gold standard

[Bill USA]

2. great post. The "Plum Line" column on WaPo has two "Open" threads which readers can post to

on whatever you want to talk about. Also, now you can put live links in your comment (most M$M sites don't allow this). These appear on Saturday and Sunday but you can post to them all week long.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/05/17/sunday-open-thread-129/

[sketchy]

3. Thanks! n/t