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December 3, 2016

Crowd Source Auditing of the 2016 Vote in Key States

I have been busy for some time going through the vote totals in Florida to see if they look reasonable to me. Having witnessed the mess in Florida in 2000 and later in Ohio in 2004, it is pretty clear to me that someone is interfering with the election process on a near continuous basis. Therefore, I am wondering if anyone would be interested in actually going through the vote totals to see if the numbers make sense (i.e., 90 plus percent turnout would a red flag, as would nearly all new ballots going to one candidate)? It is rather tedious work and requires a person to download lots of separate files, typically from the Secretary of State in each of the respective states. I have spent quite a few hours on Florida and could finish it pretty soon. We could then post the spreadsheets in Excel (pivot tables work really slick for this work) and perhaps map each one. I would guess that attribution and double checking the results would be critical (as one error would call the whole works into question).

Anyone interested? Of course, the states that need immediate attention might include those below: I am not sure if it is possible, but it would be nice to post the results so everyone could double check and add context to the results. If we used Google Earth (KML files) to produce maps, these maps could be distributed far and wide with very little cost (to anyone who has or could download the free Google Earth program).

Critical States (perhaps in order):
Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Ohio
Florida

Please accept my apologies if this thread is in the wrong location. I was not sure where to go with this idea. I have gone through the numbers in past elections and mapped the results too. I also have a huge election file tracking problems with this joke of a voting system we seem to tolerate (especially when it goes our way). It is not just problems that occur in battleground states. One person reported that voting machines were counting backwards in Oklahoma.

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