This is how they will use voting machines to cheat on Nov. 6,as they have before.

[tblue37]

All the polls and in-person interviews in 2012 strongly suggested that after ruining the Kansas economy by slashing income taxes for wealthy people and corporations, Sam Brownback was headed for defeat. So how did he pull out a win?

A Wichita State University math professor/statistician found striking statistical anomalies in the Kansas vote totals, anomalies that were also found all over the nation where voting machines are used.

But when she wanted to view the raw data, her request was rejected, and when she sued to do so, a GOP power play prevented that from happening. (Hmmmm. Now, why do you suppose the GOP wanted to prevent such a check?)

Kris Kobach, who was Kansas Secretary of State at the time and thus the top election official, said, ". . . the ballots are sealed after the contest period," and completely blocked her access.

WSU statistician sues seeking Kansas voting machine paper tapes
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN

April 01, 2015 05:04 PM
Updated April 06, 2015 06:22 AM

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.”

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“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.

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More at link: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article17139890.html

So even when there is a paper trail, the GOP has ways to prevent it from being checked!

Kobach on Sedgwick County election lawsuit: Time is past, votes are sealed
BY BRYAN LOWRY

April 05, 2015 08:54 PM
Updated April 06, 2015 06:00 AM

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Clarkson, who is representing herself, wants to study the paper records from Sedgwick County’s electronic voting machines. She is suing Kobach and Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman for access to those records.

“When you vote in Sedgwick County, there’s a paper record that records every button you push. … I want to look at those and see are those matching up to the totals being reported,” Clarkson said Friday.

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Clarkson said she filed a request for a recount after the 2014 election but was rebuffed by the Sedgwick County Election Office. Clarkson said she was told that only candidates could file for a recount of their own races. Clarkson said an audit of the paper records would give more confidence in the election results or potentially uncover problems if something went wrong.

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“I’m a certified quality engineer. I know how to do audits. … I can pull a random sample and I can look at it and I check the error rate of the machines versus the paper tapes that they provide,” she said. “This is about gaining confidence in the results as reported. You’ve got to have a post-election audit to know the error rate and to have confidence in the final results. And we don’t have this in this county,” Clarkson said. “They’ve never looked at those paper tapes and compared them to the tabulated results that the software provides.”

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More at link: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article17477357.html

I am quite sure that Pres. Obama had a much greater landslide both times than the vote totals showed, and that we won many close races that the official count gave to Republicans. The only reason Obama was acknowledged the winner is that the votes were so overwhelmingly in his favor that the GOP couldn't pull off the theft.

They obviously had intended to steal it, though, which is why Karl Rove was so completely flabbergasted on FOX that night. But by the time Ohio was ready to be called, those votes wouldn't have saved the election for the GOP, so I assume Kenneth Blackwell (Ohio Sec. of State at the time) didn't want to risk federal prison for what would have turned out to be an empty gesture and therefore didn't follow through with the plan.

[Hoyt]

1. What election are your referring to that Brownback was headed for defeat. Despise BBack,

but not sure that is true, especially if you throw in undecided in polls and/or margin of error. But, I guess it makes a good conspiracy.

In any event, I think the election results coming up will be legitimate -- voter suppression is obviously still an issue -- but hacked votes are still only a "conspiracy theory" as far as proof in this country.

If we vote, we win. Rather convenient to dismiss how Obama happened to win; when if there was ever an election white wingers or foreign countries would attempt to hack, that was it. They couldn't do it, because we voted.

Forget voter hacking at this point, there is nothing we can do about it but trust our Democratic Poll Watchers/Observers. Flood the voting booths, we win.