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Polling Place Burglary Raises Specter of Fraud

By Dan S. Wallach

This op-ed was published in The Houston Chronicle and reposted here with permission of the author. The burglary at one of Houston’s early voting locations (“Computers stolen at early polling location; Ballot board to check electronic voting machines for tampering,” Page B2, Tuesday) raises the specter of election fraud. Some computers were stolen, and... »

Comments on the California Secretary of State’s Precinct Level Data Pilot Project

By Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Philip B. Stark, Henry E. Brady, and Jasjeet S. Sekhon

Thank you for inviting comments on your Precinct Level Data Pilot Project, which seeks to provide precinct-level vote tabulation data to the public. We applaud Secretary Bowen’s pilot program. Timely precinct-level election results from California counties are crucial for establishing the integrity of California’s elections, for supporting analyses of election results and for designing... »