Metin: After the election, Pennsylvania’s data bank has added and subtracted mysteries

Supporters of President Trump hold a “Stop Stealing” rally in Harrisburg, Pa. on Nov. 5, 2020.

Nearly two months after the election, the Pennsylvania mail-in ballot data set should now be completely stable. But as of Dec. 28, 135,000 ballots were still missing from Pennsylvania’s registered voter database compared to the official figures. With the dramatic changes in these two data sets over the past few weeks, the author believes that the records should be downloaded repeatedly to compare and analyze them, to find out the crux of the problem, and to seek the truth.

As of December 28, 135,000 votes were still missing from the Pennsylvania Registered Voter Database compared to the official figures. (Source: Pennsylvania database)

Currently, I have the updated mail-in ballot data from Pennsylvania’s official website at four points in time. The records of the first two points in time (November 6 and November 10) are exactly the same, so the following analysis will only analyze the changes of the data at three points in time (November 6, November 16, and December 16).

I. Mail-in ballot data

The following is an explanation of each of the four problems with the mail-in ballot data.

Some of the problems that the author found from the three databases in hand. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

  1. 148 mail-in ballots were entered after November 3, the day of the general election. These mail-in ballots were requested, approved, mailed, and returned all on the same day.

These mail-in ballots that were entered after Nov. 3, from application, approval, mailing, and return were all on the same day. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

Common sense does not explain how mail-in ballots appear after November 3. Here is a record of how many of them appeared on a single day.

One hundred and forty-eight mail-in ballots were entered after November 3; this is a single-day count. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

  1. Mail-in ballots received after the deadline

Using November 6 as the legal deadline for receipt of mail ballots as determined by the state government, I found that there were many mail-in ballots listed as having been received and entered after November 6, totaling 19,660 ballots. According to the regulations, these ballots should not be accepted.

The author found that 19,660 mail-in ballots were received and entered after November 6. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

  1. Mail-in ballots are bizarrely tapering off

October 27 was the last date to request mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, and November 3 was the deadline for live voting; that is, the total number of mail-in ballots should have remained the same since November 3 at the latest (and their records should have been kept in the database from the date of request). However, I found that the total number of mail-in ballots is gradually decreasing.

From 3,098,705 on November 6, to 3,088,942 on November 16, and then to 3,085,255 on December 16, there were 13,450 less ballots in total.

The author found that the total number of mail-in ballots in the database is gradually decreasing. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

  1. Mail-in ballots with blank birth dates

Comparing the data of November 6, November 16, and December 16, in which the recorded voters’ birth dates, the number of which increased or decreased slightly in all three versions, there are more than 500 birth dates that are blank.

More than five hundred ballots in all three versions of the database are missing birth date information. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

The information in the mail-in ballot record is necessarily derived from the database of registered voters, except for the dates of application, approval, mailing, and return. Since mail-in ballot records do not list voter numbers, we have no way of knowing exactly who these 500+ records belong to.

Date of birth information is missing from the ballots. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

It is interesting to note that when I went to find out how many voters in the registered voter database had no date of birth, I found that only nine voters in the registered voter database had no date of birth information, and only four of them were active voters.

In the registered voter database, I found only nine voters with missing date of birth information. (Data source: Pennsylvania database)

So are the more than five hundred blank birth date records added to the mail-in ballot data really there? It is impossible to verify the existence of these people.

Second, there is a gap between the official voting figures and the voters calculated by the database

In my previous article, I analyzed that the number of voters counted in the Pennsylvania voter database has been lagging behind the number of votes reported by the officials, with a difference of millions of votes. This number is slowly approaching, but today (Dec. 28), more than half a month after certification, it is still 135,000 votes short of the official figure.

This is a problem we have discussed before, the malfunctioning of the mechanism to eliminate duplicate ballots is what caused such a difference. And here we can see what it led to.

The difference between Biden’s and Trump’s certified vote counts was 81,000 votes.

The official total number of votes cast was 6,915,283, and from the Dec. 28 data set, I calculated the number to be 6,780,018, which is more than 135,000 votes less than the official number.

The above five aspects are the changes in the timeline of the Pennsylvania data base after the general election. Perhaps by adding and subtracting a bit, the data finally conformed to common sense at some point.

But that spectrum of data has been broken down and documented for us.