A university mathematician found something that didn’t add up, and now she’s suing the state of Kansas to make sure every vote counts.
Wichita State University statistician Beth Clarkson requested Sedgwick County release election records for the recent election.
This week, Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked a judge to block that request.
Kobach argued the records are not part of the open records act, and said they’re covered under the same issues from a previously rejected lawsuit.
In Sedgwick County, the voting tapes record every stroke a voter makes on the machine.
The Election Commissioner there said the tapes are 385 feet long and are stored in 42 boxes.
The mathematician wanted to examine the voting tapes after something didn’t add up.
Clarkson explained, “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.”
A local Kansas City news station picked up this story I posted about earlier (https://plus.google.com/+DaneLaBonte/posts/c13tHg7we7Z)
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