Mike Farb of
Unhack the Vote has been tweeting out graphs that purportedly show strange voting anomalies from the 2016 election. His reporting inspired
Vote Sleuth,
We had been following @mikefarb1 with great interest on Twitter. He and a crowd-sourced team of crack data analysts have been finding some very interesting peculiarities in precinct-level election statistics from recent elections.
At some point @mikefarb1 posted a link to an article about a statistician’s denied request to audit Kansas voting machines based on some statistically anomalous results she had found when looking at precinct-level election returns vs. precinct size.
This led us to some extremely alarming papers by statisticians who have noticed odd-looking data when they tally precinct-level votes starting with the smallest precincts and moving to the largest.
We found this quite shocking.
So we decided to investigate this ourselves.
This website is a record of our ongoing work.
I tend to be more skeptical about things I
want to believe are true, because I don't like feeling foolish when it turns out I let myself be taken in. Also, I'm not at all qualified to assess these groups' claims about statistical results and their implications. But I would love to read the opinions of everyone more qualified than me to evaluate these analyses/claims. (Slarti?
)
Off finding a cure for cancer or some such.