Oh, goody. Playing right into Trump’s hands leading into the debate.
I spent years doing data entry of voter registration, and I can almost guarantee these “alterations” of voter registration data fall into one of these categories:
- Spelling corrections, e.g. changing a form’s address of “Lakeview Drive” to “Lake View Drive” to conform to a geographic database.
- Adding a zip code when it was omitted, or changing a zip when it was incorrect for that address.
- Changing the spelling of a name or birthdate to match data in a Drivers License database, when that data is confirmed through a match in driver’s license number or other data. Note that the DMV data may be incorrect.
- Typos.
Most of these are not errors at all, they are corrections that improve the quality of the database.
While thousands of potential “errors” in a registration database are possibly a cause for “concern,” it is to be expected, since no human data entry process is perfect. And none of this rises to the level of malfeasance worthy of legal action.
Adding on to charliedontsurf’s comment, and with a slightly darker view…
I work in IT at a major corporation with a relatively robust security architecture, logs, audits, off-site backups, and so on. Even so, if I or someone with similar privileges were of a mind, we could alter company data without much fuss and, if careful, without much risk of being caught. It takes significant thought and attention to security architecture to prevent “inside jobs” by administrative-level IT people. My company spends tens of millions of dollars a year on it, and still there are holes (some which simply cannot be filled - admins gotta admin). I seriously doubt that any state- or county-level office has the means or the expertise to prevent actions by a bad actor in the IT department.
Not saying that’s likely here, just that if there were an insider intent on goofing things up, it probably would be pretty easy to do.
Interesting they do not indicate if there is any correlation between the registrations that are mucked up and the political party they’re registered with. If they were a random mix of REP/DEM/IND, not sure what nefarious ends could have been intended, outside of just keeping new voters out.
What a conspiracy! Or maybe clerks had trouble reading some people’s atrocious handwriting on the forms. Having collected a bunch of forms, I can attest that some people can’t write legibly and so the registration rolls have all sorts of mistakes. I would be surprised if anybody is pulling anything.
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