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!!!
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notanartist ago
Yes - Clinton, Soros AND Omidyar - For some reason, Omidyar flies under the radar. He shouldn't. He's involved with USAid - donated $500,000 to USAid in Ukraine takeover. His companies, including Paypal and GoFundMe, have been instrumental in demonetizing "truthers." He owns ebay, and I wonder about a possible connection to "cheesebay." When he bought the Intercept, he bought the Snowden leaks. Obama named him a WH Fellow, and Omidyar visited the WH more times than Eric Schmidt. Omidyar was crucial to the US joining the OGP under Obama - and, believe me, that is a whole other subject that deserves "outing" - it's nothing more than a precursor to global governance IMHO.
ERIC is inter-operable - member states send required info to the ERIC team who then update it. They had the ability to create registrations - how would you even detect this without going through every registration and matching it with a certifiably "real" person? This is why, despite the convenience of online registration, the registration process needs to include the county clerk of a voter's precinct. They researched which states allowed total online registration and which ones required the online registration data to be sent to a county clerk who then sent a fom to the person registering to sign and return. States requiring the latter had little to no reports of unauthorized registration changes.
Why was Pew offering progressively larger incentives for states to join ERIC the closer it came to the election? Why were they funding the costs of mailing registration postcards to unregistered but eligible voters - and how many people likely to Republican received them?
Another thing about ERIC - one of the big tools for marketing it (especially to Republican incumbents) was its "state of the art" capability to remove deceased voters from the roles? Why then, did ERIC states (especially the early members) have some of the highest incidence of deceased voters?
If the post by Seth's friend is legitimate re: separate polling places and duplicate poll books, how would that fit into the strategy? Why would they need a separate place? Were they switching ballots of voters from other poll places? Were they creating registered voters who did not exist? Was the real purpose of "opening" the database to get Sander's supporter list, so they knew which ballots to intercept, and essentially use the Clinton technique of blaming someone else (Sanders campaign) for doing what Clinton team was doing? I find it difficult to believe that Seth would have opened the database if he knew what was going on.
Yes, they coordinated the info - they knew what kind of car they owned, if they were receiving government benefits, who their friends were - basically all the metadata Google collects. They could predict very accurately, I'd assume.