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Voter Data Analysis, Phase I, II

EPEC’s Data and Tech lead Jon Lareau has been publishing analysis of the Daily Absentee Logs provided by the Department of Elections and other publicly available election data sources.

Recent posts and analysis of his findings are below from the Digital Poll Watchers Sandbox (separate link). 

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  • Differential Invalidation in VA 2024 General Election Data – Presidential Race November 19, 2024
    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 […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • 2024 VA Election Night Reporting over Time – President and Vice-President November 14, 2024
    EPEC monitored and archived the election night reporting (“ENR”) files published by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”) for the 2024 General Election, using the “media export” link at the bottom of the page to periodically download a JSON file with the data. On this page you will find the plots of the Locality reported […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • 2024 VA Election Night Reporting over Time – United States Senate November 14, 2024
    EPEC monitored and archived the election night reporting (“ENR”) files published by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”) for the 2024 General Election, using the “media export” link at the bottom of the page to periodically download a JSON file with the data. On this page you will find the plots of the Locality reported […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • Observed data reliability issues with VA 2024 election night reporting data November 9, 2024
    Our team at EPEC monitored the Election Night Reporting (ENR) data feed published by the VA Department of Elections (ELECT) during the 2024 General election. While we have not finished collecting or examining the election results, we have observed a few issues already that are presented below. (Note there is a TON more data analysis […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update Nov 2024 November 2, 2024
    We have updated our previous analysis (from March, July, Sept and Oct) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data. Abstract: Using the data provided by the VA Department of Elections (ELECT), we have identified at least 3,761 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” and removed by ELECT from the voter […]
    Jonathan Lareau

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