Kansas Secretary of State tries to block release of voting tapes after statistical anomalies noted

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/25/1415363/-Kansas-Secretary-of-State-tries-to-block-release-of-voting-tapes-after-statistical-anomalies-noted?detail=email

Beth Clarkson has extensively studied voting patterns in Kansas and noted several troubling statistical anomalies, ones that always benefited Republican candidates. She pressed for further transparency and was consistently rebuffed. She decided to sue Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Sedgwick County Elections Commissioner Tabitha Lehman:

While it is well-recognized that smaller, rural precincts tend to lean Republican, statisticians have been unable to explain the consistent pattern favoring Republicans that trends upward as the number of votes cast in a precinct or other voting unit goes up. In primaries, the favored candidate appears to always be the Republican establishment candidate, above a tea party challenger. And the upward trend for Republicans occurs once a voting unit reaches roughly 500 votes.

“This is not just an anomaly that occurred in one place,” Clarkson said. “It is a pattern that has occurred repeatedly in elections across the United States.”

The pattern could be voter fraud or a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling, she said.

She wants to look over the hard copies to check the error rate. You'd think in America, the heart of democracy, this would be a fairly simple request. But, no. Last night, Kris Kobach asked a judge to block the release:

Secretary of State Kris Kobach argued that the records sought by Wichita State University mathematician Beth Clarkson are not subject to the Kansas open records act, and that their disclosure is prohibited by Kansas statute. His response, which was faxed Friday to the Sedgwick County District Court, was made public Monday.

Obviously the judge will decide, but a key cornerstone of a working democracy would seem to include the ability to audit the vote.

you guys who have been with me for awhile know i think that the skulduggery and accusations perpetrated on us by republicans are taken from their own experience think about it they have nothing new to bring to the "why you should vote for me" table and miraculously everything they try sweeping on Pres.'s, Hilary's or just Progressive shoes turn out to be things they are doing.  

 remember Bill Clinton said "it takes a lot of brass to accuse someone of what you do" or just a deceptive mindset of sky's the limit to what we will and can do to win just that their win is just that their win it has little to no benefit for we the people.

know why they never find proof of their homemade scandals against us because they refuse to look in their own yard where the scandals really are, blocking voter tapes from release to "VOTERS" now there is something to investigate but Grand Inquisitor Darrell Issa nowhere to be found you know he could be i a rubber room as a result of his constant failures to find his mythical assumptions,

those two words should have given him a hint that he's not going to find anything, unless they plant evidence put nothing pass a liar and fanatic on a mission.