Super Costly Wisconsin Dataset Revealed Multiple Paths to Fraud
My analysis of the Wisconsin election database, based on a dataset downloaded on November 10 cutoff, revealed a number of problems with the state's database, including missing information, mismanagement, no effective mechanism to prevent duplicate ballots, and the ability to create voter counts at any time. Absurd Download Fees - A Patriotic Citizen Bought the Dataset In the beginning of this article, I would briefly tell the story of this dataset. When a citizen in Wisconsin heard about fraud in his local election, he was concerned that his ballot had been tampered with and wanted to check the government database. The election dataset is publicly available ( https://badgervoters.wi.gov/ ) and can be purchased by anyone, but he was shocked when he opened the website and saw that the page stated that it cost $12,500 to download the voter list data, $12,500 to download the mail-in ballot data, and $25,000 to buy the entire data set. He was furious that a database that could be downlo...