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Michael McDonald @ElectProject
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The Department of Homeland Security is coordinating an effort to improve election cyber security, initiated by Obama. Let's hope that effort isn't now subverted by Trump directing DHS to determine the "next course of action" following Trump's failed voter integrity commission
My USA Today op-ed back in September contrasted DHS's cyber-security effort with Trump's voter integrity commission (RIP) usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
As I suspected, the work of Trump's voter integrity commission isn't over just because Trump folded up the commission. It's moving to the Department of Homeland Security kansascity.com/news/politics-…
A few questions now arise:
-What legal standing does DHS have to request voter file data?
-Will there be any way to independently verify matching of voter file data against DHS data to estimate number of non-citizens on voter rolls?
Kobach is making it clear he intends to run a secret voter fraud investigation within Department of Homeland Security apnews.com/b3d4e5974aba42…
When the DHS cyber security taskforce was created, committee membership included non-partisan and bipartisan experts from leading election administration organizations. What auspices would a secret DHS vote fraud commission run under? Seems at least a new executive order needed
What rational would Kobach (alone or with other cronies) be appointed to a secret DHS vote fraud commission?

I'm sensing more lawsuits...
I don't think Trump's defunct voter integrity commission can simply transfer the voter file data it collected to DHS. DHS operates under a different set of data gathering rules than the commission did
I would bet DHS has already been doing the work comparing Trump's voter integrity commission's voter file data to the DHS immigration database, and Kobach's been involved in it
ICE is leading the new secret voter fraud investigation
This is not how the DHS cyber-security task force operates. It is composed of non-partisan and bipartisan experts in election administration
Here is an explainer of DHS's role as elections as critical infrastructure. Pursuing vote fraud claims is outside the mandate, which is primarily information sharing eac.gov/assets/1/6/sta…
My Spidey-sense is tingling a lawsuit challenging ICE's role in investigating vote fraud claims. What is the legal rational for ICE (much less DHS) to take this role? I'm not even sure Trump could issue an executive order. He may need an act of Congress
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Some good news for #electionnerds. The Sloan Foundation provided us with support to collect a national snapshot of the voter registration databases with 2018 vote history. This is the first step to create an apolitical organization to collect and disseminate voter files
The political parties and their partisan vendors do a great job with creating national voter registration databases for their candidates and allied groups. There are some apolitical organizations that can't work with them, though.
Another limitation from an academic perspective is the parties and data vendors often employ proprietary algorithms and give limited (and costly) access to their data, if at all. An academic sandbox will facilitate more research in a more transparent environment
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This outrage is directed at something called "normalized vote" and is a cornerstone of just about every partisan fairness metric. The court-appointed 11th member of New Jersey's state legislative commission has used it in the past 4 redistricting cycles
In the 1970s Rutgers political scientist Donald Stokes was appointed by the NJ Supreme Court as the 11th or tie-breaking member of the newly created NJ state legislative apportionment board
Faced with 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans, Stokes said that he would vote for the party's plan that best achieved a set of criteria that he had devised, including one for partisan fairness
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Since I work closely with early voting data across the country, a few observations about NC and elsewhere
NC is perhaps one of the most transparent states in the country. They have a centralized election management system that local election officials use to track absentee ballots, early voting, voter registration, etc., all available on a public ftp site dl.ncsbe.gov/?prefix=
On the other extreme there are states where each locality runs elections. Take Alabama. When we called local election officials for their absentee ballot counts we literally were told that they had to look in a folder so they could count them (when someone would return our call)
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