Sometimes The Data Looks Strange
Learn What to Look For
We’ve Been Busy
Apologies for the gap in our posting.
We’ve been super busy, building out our #CountTheVote election observation program. We hired two new team members and are starting a 6-week training cycle Tuesday 4/21/26 to teach anyone who wants to get involved - how to observe many aspects of our elections.
Training is once/week for 6 weeks, on Tuesdays at 4pm PT / 7pm ET. The sessions are free and open to everyone. Fill out the google form at the link below, to receive the Zoom registration. All trainings are at the same Zoom link.
The midterms are going to be close, contentious and critically important.
This is your opportunity to actively protect the outcome. Why not learn more about how our elections actually work?
We Observe Elections
Hopefully everything goes well. But sometimes it does not.
Below are some cases that we’ve observed, or our contacts have observed that have troubled us.
Feb 18th 2026, Republican Primary Bexar County TX
You’re going to hear a lot more about this election from us.
One of the advantages of doing election observation all over the country, is that we are building relationships with local election reform advocates in many communities.
One of our partners, Lori Gallagher of Tally Texas, was sent a voter check-in file from the Republican primary in Bexar (pronounced Bear) County TX. In addition to several thousand voter records, that looked relatively normal, this file contains 735 names, each of which has been duplicated either 5 or 6 times in the voter file. Each duplicated name has a unique voter ID that is different from the voter ID of original name. The duplicated voter IDs contain decimals (fractions) which is not normal.
Only one expert we’ve consulted about this file believes that this could be a normal file. All other experts that we’ve consulted (approximately eight-to-ten, some with extensive election experience, and all with deep security or data experience) are convinced that this file was being used to in some way manipulate, or test manipulation of the Texas Republican primary.
Here are two of the duplicated IDs.
The file raises many questions including:
Who created the file and why?
Why did County election officials ignore the problems when they were reported?
Why do some of the voter ID numbers have fractions?
Why are the voter ID numbers generated in a very specific mathematical pattern, with a consistent interval between them?
Why are individual voters assigned multiple voter IDs?
Why are some precincts outside of the range of real precincts?
Why do the addresses for each duplicated name have a consecutive address, such as:
300 LABOR 6106 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78210
301 LABOR 6106 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78210
302 LABOR 6106 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78210
303 LABOR 6106 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78210
304 LABOR 6106 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78210
305 LABOR 6106 SAN ANTONIO, TX 78210
We’ll be generating a report with more information about this file.
November 2024, St. Lucie County, FL
One of our developing collaborations is with Alison Greene, whose Substack, “It’s Up To Us” has been publishing a chronicle of her investigation into voter roll irregularities in St. Lucie County, FL.
She’s found voter rolls that don’t match at the county and state level. She’s concerned about thousands of missing voter records. She’s also discovered individuals who are listed as having voted in St. Lucie, even though they say they weren’t living in the county at the time and voted elsewhere.
One of the things we’re collaborating on with her is a nation-wide data base of voter rolls. At our training on 5/5 (our 3rd training in the series) at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET we’ll teach you how to request voter rolls in your county and state, and how to start evaluating whether people are being removed, or added illegally.
June 2024, New York City Democratic Primary
We filed a lawsuit about this case, because the irregularities were so egregious. All of the information we gathered was collected by observing in the polling place, at the audit, or through interviews with candidates, after it became clear that something was amiss. Here is a quote from our press release.
“The legal action depicts gross irregularities in the handling of voting equipment and ballots, reports of bribery, a lack of notification to some voters, and rampant illegal electioneering in the June 2024 New York Democratic Primary Election in Assembly District 70 …
The election included a highly competitive race for an open seat in the New York Assembly, representing Harlem and parts of the Upper West Side. These findings raise serious concerns about the legitimacy of the election and the certified results. The lawsuit calls for a new supervised special election.”
These cases deserve further investigation
We don’t know how many other cases there are that are similar to these - because for the most part - no one is conducting detailed observation of our elections. But that is all about to change, because you are going to be observing your local elections now - and so are your family and friends.
Our goal is to establish a nation-wide safety net of observation, to maximize transparency of the voting process. Observers will actively participate in their local elections, collecting organized, verifiable data about how their elections are conducted. This will help ensure that the results are accurate and fair and that the process is transparent. This engagement helps increase knowledge, boost confidence, identify trouble spots, and reduce the risk of foul play. Greater trust in results decreases the chances of chaos, or even violence, following an election.
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To be clear, the 2026 Primary Election in Texas was March 3, with early voting February 17-27. At the Bexar County polling site where I worked, I checked in several voters whose name came up two times (everything was the same except VUID number). The election judge would call the county election office when this happened and they would say which one to use or they’d go into their system to delete one and tell us to start check in process over, at which point the voter only came up once. Very strange, I’ve never seen that happen before in the almost 10 years I’ve worked elections.
Lulu, aren't voter rolls public?? Why is Mark Elias warning us about voter rolls being demanded by DOJ? I am getting suspicious of Democracy Docket.