[EL] studying voter fraud/recommendations for publication outlets

[Bev Harris]

> In effect, assertions of voter fraud often invoke untestable claims.

The claims are testable. Basically, they boil down to allegations that:
1) Some voters cast more than one vote
2) Some ineligible voters vote

You can readily see how many voters cast more than one vote by examining voter
history lists together with such documents as electronic pollbook logs and
physical pollbooks.

Examining voter history lists, I was able to quantify this in Shelby County TN.
Out of approximately 400,000 votes cast in the 2008 presidential election,
about five appeared to have voted twice.

Comparing an additional record, the electronic pollbook logs from August 2010 I
was able to locate 128 voters who cast votes both in early voting and at the
polling place. This also identified a more significant problem: The voter
history software is only capable of registering one vote per voter, so when a
voter casts votes twice, it only appears once in the voter history. (in the
earlier example, the five voters were in the voter history list under two
different ID numbers, with two different records; in this example, the voters
were in the list only once; they appeared as voting under the exact same voter
ID both at the polling place and in early voting.)

Regarding ineligible voters voting, that is ascertainable with cooperation of
certain governmental agencies; the issue of non-citizens voting is sometimes
studied using jury lists, and the issue of dead persons voting is ascertainable
with the state death list, which is supposed to be sent to registrars so they
can remove the dead bodies.

Bev Harris
Founder - Black Box Voting
http://www.blackboxvoting.org

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