I am appearing appeared on the This Week in Kansas news program Sunday morning (10AM October 4th).
You can watch the segment on the web, here. Select the October 4 thumbnail on the right, then click on the player button above it to watch the segment.
Voting for the truth in Kansas
It’s hard to understand why state officials, especially Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who worries so much about voter fraud, are making it so difficult for a Wichita State University researcher to check the accuracy of Kansas voting machines.
Statistician Beth Clarkson says voting results seem to show a pattern, an “anomaly,” that could indicate the results are not accurate or have been manipulated. She wants to audit the results, and so far has filed two lawsuits to get access to voting records.
The top election official in Kansas has asked a Sedgwick County judge to block the release of voting machine tapes sought by a Wichita mathematician who is researching statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts in the November 2014 general election.
Why Kansas Keeps Killing Itself
Clarkson has been at this for a while now. Her attempts to pry open the voting records for Sedgwick County have barely made a ripple nationally but, in the world of voter-suppression, this is a big deal I guess it would have been to the advantage of Kobach, who is the dark genius behind nationwide anti-immigrant and nationwide voter-suppression laws, if the Kansas courts actually had shut down. Clarkson is speculating not only that votes were suppressed, but also that there was some severe monkey-mischief played with the votes that were counted. This is an entirely different – and more serious – thing.
Mathematician suspicious of election fraud hires lawyer to force Kansas to hand over voting records
A Kansas mathematician said this week that she had retained a lawyer and had scheduled a discovery hearing to force Secretary of State Kris Kobach to hand over voting records after they showed evidence of election fraud.