Voter Data Analysis by EPEC CTO Jon Lareau

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  • Potential Duplicate Registrations in VA Voter List – August 2025 August 10, 2025
    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 […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update August 2025 August 8, 2025
    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. Abstract: Using the data provided by the VA Department of Elections (ELECT), we have identified at least 6,086 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” and removed […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • Validating Ed Solomon’s Observations on CO 2020 data May 27, 2025
    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 […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • 2025 VA June Republican Primary Election DAL File Metrics May 4, 2025
    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: […]
    Jonathan Lareau
  • 2025 VA June Democratic Primary Election DAL File Metrics May 4, 2025
    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. Note: Page may take a moment to load the graphics objects. Linear Scale Plot: […]
    Jonathan Lareau

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