System Reliability Analysis: Impact of Structural Anomalies in State Voter Registration Systems
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This analysis examines fundamental reliability issues in state voter registration systems stemming from structuraldatabase anomalies and record reconciliation failures. Research reveals systemic inconsistencies that impair basic databasefunctionality, including: irreconcilable discrepancies between state and county voting records, widespread record duplication(cloning), retroactive historical modifications, and algorithmically obscured data relationships. These issues createmathematical uncertainties in both individual and aggregate voter participation records that cannot be resolved throughstandard auditing procedures. The cumulative effect renders these systems incapable of reliably performing their corefunction of accurately tracking voter participation, independent of the original causes of these anomalies.
Author: Andrew Paquette
Language: English
Topic: Data Quality and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4408804825