Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:39AM from the don't-you-worry-your-pretty-little-head dept.

PvtVoid writes: Wichita State University statistician Beth Clarkson has filed a lawsuit under Kansas' open records law to force the state to release paper tape records from voting machines, to be used as data in her research on statistical anomalies in voting patterns in the state. 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. The pattern could be voter fraud or a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling. Secretary of State Kris Kobach argued that the records sought by Clarkson are not subject to the Kansas open records act, and that their disclosure is prohibited by Kansas statute.

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Re:In other words. by fustakrakich · 2015-08-27 05:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Well, yeah!
Too bad it won't motivate us all to trash these contraptions. They are designed to commit fraud. So, in that case, they are working perfectly and we should keep them!

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