University Statistician Suing Government Over Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud

Theantimedia.org During every election cycle, politicians, the media, and citizens alike sing the praises of democracy and the power of the “vote.” The ritual is often lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement — assurance that politicians carry out the people’s wishes. In Kansas, however, a statistician from Wichita State University has filed an open records lawsuit to investigate what she worries may be evidence of voter fraud. Tellingly, since she initially filed the suit in April, authorities have attempted to block her request for voter records. Beth Clarkson, chief statistician for Wichita State’s National Institute for Aviation Research, said last week that she noticed results for the last several elections in the state failed to add up. “If we’re not being counted accurately, we’re losing our right to vote without even being aware of it,” she said at an event commemorating the 95th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Clarkson has sued the state of Kansas for the power to examine the voter tapes, which record every stroke a voter casts on the machines. In Sedgwick County, for example, that amounts to 385 feet of tape stored in 42 boxes. Clarkson is eager to examine the records, claiming she noticed abnormalities in the numbers. “I don’t understand why those patterns are there, the patterns are very definitely real. But we don’t know what’s causing them or why they’re there.They do fit what would be expected if election fraud is occurring, and that’s very concerning [emphasis added].” “This is not just an anomaly that occurred in one place,” Clarkson said in April. “It is a pattern that has occurred repeatedly in elections across the United States.”... Clarkson argues that in some counties, results are impossible to audit. In Johnson County, which uses electronic machines, there is no paper trail or record of votes. “They’re basically saying you don’t need to look at these paper records, we can just trust the machine,” she observed. For years, voter rights advocates across the country have feared the efficacy and reliability of electronic voting machines because of their lack of accountability, accuracy, and the ease with which they can be hacked — an issue Clarkson also notes...