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In reply to the discussion: A mathematician may have uncovered widespread election fraud, and Kansas is trying to silence her [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)He was a computer science department professor back at my alma mater at University of Iowa as noted here on his wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_W._Jones
I made a point of interviewing him back around the time that this film was made when I was visiting Iowa City as a graduate later and Brad Blog was hot on election fraud being a hot topic then, and talked about many issues surrounding election fraud. He was even concerned about potential election fraud in Oregon where I was about to move to and had in place vote by mail as they do now. He was noting that it still matters who administers vote counting and does the actual counting that even with mailed in ballots could have election fraud be in place. We saw evidence of this sort of thing happening just a few years back in Clackamas County here in Oregon too, as noted in this story from then:
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/151246-former-county-elections-worker-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-charges
It was great to hear his opinions then, and we need more people like that helping us build the newer infrastructure for voting in the 21st century to help get rid of this abuse.
He talked about earlier non-electronic election fraud when there were trained workers that could know who voters voted for by being trained to know which sounds translated in to what votes when the levers were being pulled down in the older mechanical voting mahines. That was a good piece of history.