Are Voting Irregularities Still a Problem in Kansas?
A statistics professor noticed a curious voting pattern, but her request for data to conduct research into the matter was denied. Kansas’ Secretary of State Kris Kobach may be up to his old tricks again.
Kansas Secretary of State tries to block release of voting tapes after statistical anomalies noted
Beth Clarkson has extensively studied voting patterns in Kansas and noted several troubling statistical anomalies, ones that always benefited Republican candidates. She pressed for further transparency and was consistently rebuffed. She decided to sue Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Sedgwick County Elections Commissioner Tabitha Lehman…
Lawsuit over voting records could move forward
“I don’t think we have safety in our elections right now,” says Dr. Beth Clarkson. “As long as we are using these machines that are vulnerable, and have no verification, how can we claim we have secure elections?”
Clarkson is suing Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Editorial: Allow audit of voting machines
If Kansas elections are as secure and fair as Secretary of State Kris Kobach contends, it’s hard to see the harm in letting a Wichita statistician check the accuracy of Sedgwick County’s voting machines.
Yet Beth Clarkson, whose day job is as chief statistician at Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research, has had to pursue an open-records lawsuit to get the data needed to audit the 2014 election results.
Kansas seeks to block release of voting machine paper tapes
Top election officials in Kansas and Sedgwick County have asked a court to block the release of voting machine tapes sought by a Wichita mathematician who is researching statistical anomalies in election counts.