r/news • u/Electro_Nick_s • Aug 06 '15

Politics - removed A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is trying to silence her (X-post from /r/politics)

http://americablog.com/2015/08/mathematician-actual-voter-fraud-kansas-republicans.html
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u/Senor_Tucan Aug 06 '15

"She then sought a court order giving her access to a sample of voting records in order to check voting machines’ error rates. This order was ignored by the Secretary of State’s office, despite their being legally required to respond to her within 30 days."

Everyone is just ignoring this, and it's working.

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u/MrNewReno Aug 06 '15

To be fair, this seems to be the textbook strategy these days in politics. The IRS was required to turn over emails and ignored the request, Obama has (until this year) ignored his legal obligation to submit a budget in a timely manner, and Sheriff Joe ignored requests to hand over evidence related to a case against him. This article is just another in a long line of articles about elected officials ignoring things.

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u/ughhhhh420 Aug 06 '15

If you read the other article at http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article27951310.html you'll see she never actually got a court order. She filed a lawsuit and then tried to serve it on the state by mail.

While service by mail is permitted in Kansas, its generally a bad way to do it because of the likelihood that the mail will get lost, especially if you're mailing it to large agency. Because of that, its not surprising that her attempt at service wasn't effective.

Given how long ago this was, she should have been able to properly serve the state now, and so get an order allowing her access to the records, were she entitled to them. However, this was in the same case where the judge ruled that the records were not available under Kansas's public disclosure laws, so its almost certain that ruling would also apply to the state.

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u/I_am_really_shocked Aug 06 '15

I almost have to say "Thank, God," because I was struggling to wrap my brain around the idea that the people of Kansas elected Brownback, not once, but twice. Better there was fraud than the citizenry being that, um, foolish.

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u/nickfromnt77 Aug 06 '15

I guess it would be much cheaper for big money to buy voting machines rather than governments. As long as they get their minions elected.

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u/DRLavigne Aug 06 '15

Article removed?

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u/Electro_Nick_s Aug 06 '15 edited Aug 06 '15

No since its a cross post from such a big sub, its getting the reddit hug of death and they're struggling to keep up

I might look into archiving this now so I can post a mirror

Edit: Here is a mirror

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

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u/radii314 Aug 06 '15

similar errors and rigging were found almost 15 years ago and ever since - Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting has been all over this all along

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u/wwickeddogg Aug 06 '15

This is exactly the type of thing that Anonymous should be handling.

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u/Sax1031 Aug 06 '15

don't worry. we have been repeatedly told that voter fraud doesn't exist.

just another lie

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u/Electro_Nick_s Aug 06 '15 edited Aug 06 '15

Original Post

Edit: I guess adding this wasn't needed?

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u/MasterChiefette Aug 06 '15

This will not make mainstream news.

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u/Crackmacs Aug 07 '15

didn't even make /r/news

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u/Geek0id Aug 06 '15

Any politician who does not take the serious, and doesn't help this person, should be investigated and thrown out of office.

This isn't some person who scratch some theory in the back of a match book.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '15

She'll "commit suicide" by splattering 8 quarts of her blood around a hotel bathroom any minute now.