News from Brownbackistan: Brownback approves changes to unemployment insurance, benefits

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2. At least one Kansas mathematician isn't convinced the election can be trusted

Beth Clarkson.

link:
http://www.salina.com/opinion/editorials/this-isn-t-a-mirage/article_37b79a70-f76a-5615-a9c9-229c7111dedb.html


from the 4/27/15 article:

"Secretary of State Kris Kobach has built his political career promising gullible Kansas voters that voter fraud is a problem and he’s just the guy to stop it."

"So it is amazing to us that when a Wichita mathematician found statistical anomalies in voting patterns in the last Kansas general election results, Kobach refused her request for paper tapes from electronic voting machines.

Beth Clarkson, who has a Ph.D. in statistics, has analyzed election returns in Kansas and elsewhere over several elections and found a “statistically significant” pattern in which the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.

The patterns show either a built-in error in the Kansas voting system, or broad-scale fraud, or are “indicating a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling.” (Remember the polls showing Davis winning the governor race?)"

more at link

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Of course, this has gotten near zero media coverage.