A Voater just submitted this stunning information about Seth's work at the DNC, specifically his work with PANDA. It is so compelling, I asked her permission to make it a separate post:

I found out more about this open source library of data analysis tools that works with Python called PANDA. It was originally a Knight News challenge winner in 2011 but has since become widely used. ONE use is for compiling voter registration data and some researchers even used it to predict how individuals within each precinct vote. I did some more digging and found that the AP has been using it since 2014 WIDELY to store huge amounts of voter registration. THE AP? PANDA? Voter registration data? 2014 (the year the Voter Expansion Project began, a CLINTON project involving Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft among others)? Seth Rich and Pratt Wiley were in charge of the voter data thought the expansion.

Here is an extensive article about the VEP: https://medium.com/@MeanJean/what-is-the-dnc-voter-expansion-project-264395c439f3 Excerpts: "The article quotes Pratt Wiley, the DNC’s voter protection director who was fired this past summer after a Wikileaks dump revealed Wiley and other DNC staff including Debbie Wassermann Schultz , interfering in the election on a national level, placing more than a thumb on the scales in Clinton’s favor. In recently leaked documents published via Wikileaks, we learn from Clinton’s campaign chairs, John Podesta’s and Robby Mook’s email exchanges that the majority of the internets technology and data software creators and/or companies themselves are “With Her”.

Archived link: http://archive.is/QweuE

"The DNC works with closely w/partner network alliances-which act as a funnel for millions of dollars of donations to the party committees and the Clinton campaign. The main alliance is Democracy Alliance and, sister charity to Tides Foundation , the Tides Center-which like the DA, serves as an incubator for fledgling progressive non-profit dark money organizations and private for-profit companies."

All of the election night coverage gets fed to newsrooms through the AP system using data from stringers. Here's how that works: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/03/how-the-associated-press-tells-us-all-whos-winning-on-election-night-explained/?utm_term=.e93138a85349 Note there is a cross-check of the total against the number of registered voters in an area.

Do you think there might be a connection here? Do you think Seth was into/onto PANDA? Here's more on it: http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/what-happens-to-a-great-open-source-project-when-its-creators-are-no-longer-using-the-tool-themselves/

Remember: Seth was hired in 2014 specifically as data director for this project! AND his LinkedIn (now erased but captured at reddit) said he was skilled in PYTHON statistical data analysis!!!