Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 8:39:14 GMT -6
Wichita State statistician casts vote for regular auditing of Kansas election returns
A Wichita statistician skeptical of electronic voting security endorsed Tuesday a recommendation by the Kansas secretary of state to allow post-election audits to determine whether mistakes or fraud occurred on Election Day.
Elizabeth Clarkson, chief statistician at the National Institute for Aviation Research affiliated with Wichita State University, told the Topeka-Shawnee County League of Women Voters the conversation might be moving in the right direction with Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposal to amend state law to enable auditing of ballots.
“I’m very pleased to see Kris Kobach propose legislation,” she said. “We do need post-election audits. Without them we don’t have transparency in our voting system.”
Clarkson had filed a lawsuit in Sedgwick County District Court in a bid to overcome an exemption for ballots in the Kansas Open Records Act. She sought hard copies of voting records to check the error rate by voting machines.
Read more: cjonline.com/news/2016-02-02/wichita-state-statistician-casts-vote-regular-auditing-kansas-election-returns
A Wichita statistician skeptical of electronic voting security endorsed Tuesday a recommendation by the Kansas secretary of state to allow post-election audits to determine whether mistakes or fraud occurred on Election Day.
Elizabeth Clarkson, chief statistician at the National Institute for Aviation Research affiliated with Wichita State University, told the Topeka-Shawnee County League of Women Voters the conversation might be moving in the right direction with Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s proposal to amend state law to enable auditing of ballots.
“I’m very pleased to see Kris Kobach propose legislation,” she said. “We do need post-election audits. Without them we don’t have transparency in our voting system.”
Clarkson had filed a lawsuit in Sedgwick County District Court in a bid to overcome an exemption for ballots in the Kansas Open Records Act. She sought hard copies of voting records to check the error rate by voting machines.
Read more: cjonline.com/news/2016-02-02/wichita-state-statistician-casts-vote-regular-auditing-kansas-election-returns