I previously had put together analysis that utilized the full name and date of birth information from the Virginia Registered Voter List (“RVL”) in order to look for duplicate registrations, either exact matches or by using a string distance measure (the Levenshtein distance) to accommodate for typos, abbreviations, and mis-spellings. Just prior to the start […]| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis (see March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024 and March 2025 posts) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
Recently I was made aware of the work Ed Solomon had been doing with data from the 2020 Colorado Cast Vote Records (CVRs), and I’ve taken some time to replicate and validate some of his data observations. I don’t always agree with Ed, but I wanted to take some time and verify the facts of the matter for myself.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2025 VA June Republican Primary Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file. Note: Page may take a moment to load the graphics objects. Linear Scale Plot: […]| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2025 VA June Democratic Primary Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis (see March, July, Sept, Oct, Nov and Dec posts) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
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The following presentation is adapted from a presentation and discussion EPEC staff had with select VA legislators on 2025-02-18. Our team was very thankful for being invited to present and explain our methods, data and observations and look forward to further interactions with legislative teams.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent the time to go through all of the tabulator machine tapes for Prince William County VA, which are made available by the PWC Registrar and scans of which are posted on the pwcvotes.org website. Our sincere thanks to the PWC Registrar for posting these for public inspection, and we encourage other Registrars to do the same or similar.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis (see March, July, Sept, Oct and Nov posts) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
Using data published by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”), we plotted the Ballot Invalidation Rate (BIR) vs. the % of vote share for the winner in order to attempt to determine if “Differential Invalidation” of ballots occurred in the 2024 VA General Election. The plotted data appears to show differential invalidation and suggests that […]| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis (from March, July, Sept and Oct) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis (from March, July, and Sept) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis (from March, and July) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
The VA Department of Elections (ELECT) has given us at EPEC notice (as of 8/26/2024) that they will be removing the full date of birth information from purchased datasets and replacing it with year of birth only. Note that this is not in relation to publicly available data, but for data that has been purchased by specific qualifying individuals or organizations capable of purchasing and handling expanded datasets according to VA law and ELECT policies. Current VA law does NOT allow full birt...| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
Update (2023-12-14 12:00:00 EST) : Special thank you to Rick Michael of the Chesterfield Electoral board for checking their records on issues #1 and #2 below. There were 3 x Issue #1 records and 9 x Issue #2 records identified in Chesterfield County.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
We have updated our previous analysis with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data.| Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
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Previously I posted the computation of potential duplicate records based on string comparisons in the registered voter list. As a follow up to that article, I’ve compiled the statistics of the number of potential pairs for each locality in VA. | Digital Poll Watchers (dot) Org
