Thank you for your insightful response. I tip my hat to you. My personality doesn't lend itself to putting up with the shenanigans you described.
With the lack of visible outrage by those in either party, I'm led to believe the obfuscation you and other researchers experience is "by design." I tend to believe "election integrity" is a deliberate distraction. Elections or (s)elections were rigged before election machines became the norm, and if we reversed to paper ballots, I'd expect election or (s)election shenanigans to continue, just in a different form from the current shenanigans.
Don't you wonder with the rigged 2020 election or (s)election (I witnessed it live) how is it that the 2024 election or (s)election has been accepted by both major parties as being legitimate ..., or was it?
I hope you are able to cut through the red tape to identify how the electoral or (s)electoral system is gamed by both major political parties.
I agree with you. The fact that neither major party appears overly concerned about this serious concern, among many other concerns, leads me to believe that the whole electoral system is rigged. There always seems to be an obstacle or a dead-end that prevents those of us in the masses from learning the truth.
Does this fall under the preview of Kobach? If not, to what individual does it fall? Has what you uncovered happened in previous elections, especially Presidential elections?
I know this goes against generally accepted thinking, but are both parties involved in election shenanigans?
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 controls all this. In Kansas, the Secretary of State's office receives voter registration data for ELVIS (Election Voter Information System) from the Department of Revenue.
A KORA request from April 30 provided information about agreements that are very old and likely outdated:
There is a "Memorandum of Agreement" from 2004 between the Kansas Dept of Revenue and the Social Security Administration for HAVV. Of course, SSA can "hide" much of what it does through a non-profit contractor, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, that does the actual verification checks.
The Kansas Department of Revenue signed a 2012 "Memorandum of Understanding" with the Kansas Secretary of State, which appears to block any information release since "State Motor Vehicle Records contain 'Personal information' and 'highly restricted personal information.'"
My follow-up KORA request to KDOR from Aug 8 asked for de-identified information about the 1067 transactions from Kansas for the week ending March 23, 2024. HAVV said there were 1067 transactions that week in the online SSA website with 835 Social Security matches including 447 matches to deceased. The goal was to identify approximate locations where problems were occurring.
The KDOR response: "we have determined that we do not have any documents responsive to your request. The Secretary of State’s Office would be the most likely agency to have what you are looking for."
The follow-up response from the KS Secretary of State's Office: "Our understanding of the inner workings of HAVV is limited."
So HAVV appears to have been designed to block any transparency at both the federal and state levels. Researchers in other states have all run into this same problem.
Jeff O'Donnell tracked HAVV in the 2020 election and noted several problems. https://magaraccoon.com/docs/2020%20HAVV%20LOOKUP%20NATIONAL%20ANALYSIS.pdf. My work in 2024 was based on Jeff's with an attempt to monitor what was going on in the months before the election. My work is not yet complete <g>.
Earl,
Thank you for your insightful response. I tip my hat to you. My personality doesn't lend itself to putting up with the shenanigans you described.
With the lack of visible outrage by those in either party, I'm led to believe the obfuscation you and other researchers experience is "by design." I tend to believe "election integrity" is a deliberate distraction. Elections or (s)elections were rigged before election machines became the norm, and if we reversed to paper ballots, I'd expect election or (s)election shenanigans to continue, just in a different form from the current shenanigans.
Don't you wonder with the rigged 2020 election or (s)election (I witnessed it live) how is it that the 2024 election or (s)election has been accepted by both major parties as being legitimate ..., or was it?
I hope you are able to cut through the red tape to identify how the electoral or (s)electoral system is gamed by both major political parties.
We need full accounting of all ballots, and full accounting of all voters. Neither side seems to welcome more transparency, however.
I agree with you. The fact that neither major party appears overly concerned about this serious concern, among many other concerns, leads me to believe that the whole electoral system is rigged. There always seems to be an obstacle or a dead-end that prevents those of us in the masses from learning the truth.
Does this fall under the preview of Kobach? If not, to what individual does it fall? Has what you uncovered happened in previous elections, especially Presidential elections?
I know this goes against generally accepted thinking, but are both parties involved in election shenanigans?
I'm not sure how AG Kobach might help.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 controls all this. In Kansas, the Secretary of State's office receives voter registration data for ELVIS (Election Voter Information System) from the Department of Revenue.
A KORA request from April 30 provided information about agreements that are very old and likely outdated:
There is a "Memorandum of Agreement" from 2004 between the Kansas Dept of Revenue and the Social Security Administration for HAVV. Of course, SSA can "hide" much of what it does through a non-profit contractor, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, that does the actual verification checks.
The Kansas Department of Revenue signed a 2012 "Memorandum of Understanding" with the Kansas Secretary of State, which appears to block any information release since "State Motor Vehicle Records contain 'Personal information' and 'highly restricted personal information.'"
My follow-up KORA request to KDOR from Aug 8 asked for de-identified information about the 1067 transactions from Kansas for the week ending March 23, 2024. HAVV said there were 1067 transactions that week in the online SSA website with 835 Social Security matches including 447 matches to deceased. The goal was to identify approximate locations where problems were occurring.
The KDOR response: "we have determined that we do not have any documents responsive to your request. The Secretary of State’s Office would be the most likely agency to have what you are looking for."
The follow-up response from the KS Secretary of State's Office: "Our understanding of the inner workings of HAVV is limited."
So HAVV appears to have been designed to block any transparency at both the federal and state levels. Researchers in other states have all run into this same problem.
Jeff O'Donnell tracked HAVV in the 2020 election and noted several problems. https://magaraccoon.com/docs/2020%20HAVV%20LOOKUP%20NATIONAL%20ANALYSIS.pdf. My work in 2024 was based on Jeff's with an attempt to monitor what was going on in the months before the election. My work is not yet complete <g>.