Sent to us by Big Dan.
The Wichita Eagle – by Roxana Hegeman
A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday, seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines in 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, said she 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 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.
“This is not just an anomaly that occurred in one place,” Clarkson said. “It is a pattern that has occurred repeatedly in elections across the United States.”
The pattern could be voter fraud or a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling, she said.
“I do not know why this trend is there, but I know that the pattern is there and one way to establish that it is or is not election fraud is to go and do a physical audit of paper records of voting machines,” she said.
Clarkson wants the hard copies to check the error rate on electronic voting machines that were used in a voting station in Sedgwick County to establish a statistical model.
A spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office said in an e-mail that the office has not received a copy of the lawsuit and is therefore unable to comment on it. A phone message left at the Sedgwick County elections office for Lehman was not immediately returned.
Clarkson became more interested in the issue after reading a paper written by statisticians Francois Choquette and James Johnson in 2012 of the Republican primary results showing strong statistical evidence of election manipulation in Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Clarkson said she couldn’t believe their findings, so she checked their math and found it was correct and checked their model selection and found it appropriate. Then she pulled additional data from other elections they hadn’t analyzed and found the same pattern.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article17139890.html#storylink=cpy
I wonder if she is going to check all the dead people that voted democrat?
I wonder if she is going to check all the dead people that voted Republican?
Are you trying to pretend that there is some kind of difference between the treasonous democans and the treasonous republicrats? Our country has been subverted and you are going to compare Trotsky to Stalin?
Hope yours was not a serious comment. If so, better get a big glass of water and wash that red pill down, as it appears to be hung in your throat.
I won’t be voting this next go ’round for President. People will tell me, “then you have no right to complain”. The heck I don’t! Watch me!
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No, it’s the other way around, and the ones who voted for this fascist corporatocracy (corpse oratory) have no right to complain.
I realized they do this in PRIMARIES, when John Kerry beat Howard Dean, and when Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul. Howard Dean CRUSHED John Kerry, and Ron Paul CRUSHED Mitt Romney. BUT…John Kerry & Howard Dean were the “ESTABLISHMENT” candidates.
It’s ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS, which means Tea Party & Libertarians are getting screwed, too.