Vice News talked with founder of the Ohio Voter Project and author of the Voter Purge Project’s data cleaning and analysis methodology Steve Tingley-Hock about our work to track wrongful data purges across the country. “When I ran the initial queries, that was my first indication that there was a serious problem here,” Steve says […]
Read MoreWill Young People Who Protest Also Vote?
Spectrum News One, Cleveland, Ohio Tweeting, Instagramming, protesting —all things that Millennials and Generation Z embrace. But what about voting? According to the Ohio Voter Project, which analyzes election data, as of July 1, there are approximately 740,000 voters, ages 18-24 registered to vote in the state, compared to 3 million people age 50 and […]
Read MoreOne IT Guy’s Spreadsheet-Fueled Race to Restore Voting Rights
From WIRED Magazine September 2020 Issue: Armed with [Steve Tingley-Hock’s], work, voter rights groups in a handful of states are trying to plug these holes in the voter registration system—before hundreds of thousands of voters are drained from the rolls ahead of the presidential election. It’s the story of database nerds, armed with a deep […]
Read MoreOhio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%.
When Ohio released a list of people it planned to strike from its voting rolls, around 40,000 people shouldn’t have been on it. The state only found out because of volunteer sleuthing. By Nicholas CaseyOct. 14, 2019COLUMBUS, Ohio — The clock was ticking for Jen Miller. The state of Ohio had released names of 235,000 […]
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