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Opening for fraud

McCann's announcement comes after a series of revelations by the newspaper that have left critics worrying that the problems signal either bureaucratic blundering or widespread fraud, though they can't determine which because the system itself is so messed up.


This week, the newspaper reported finding that more than 1,200 votes Nov. 2 came from invalid addresses, with nearly 75% of those coming from people who registered at the polls. Of those, a sample showed about 20% could be explained by data entry errors, such as transposed digits.


In addition, the newspaper found that 186 votes from invalid addresses were among about 5,600 addresses challenged before the election by the state Republican Party as non-existent.


Meanwhile, the newspaper's latest review of the city's records shows several hundred cases in which the same person is recorded as voting twice from the same address, though it appears to be the result of already-registered voters who re-registered to vote and consequently are listed in the database twice.


The Journal Sentinel found 314 cases where this may have occurred with the same address listed twice, and many others cases where people with identical and uncommon names are listed as voting at two addresses - perhaps due to reregistering at their new address on election day.


The 314 cases examined do not appear to be ones where one person was issued two ballots.


They do point, however, toward sloppy or flawed data entry into a system that did not have enough safeguards to prevent duplicate entries or provide enough oversight of those registering to vote to prevent people from doing so twice.


On a practical level, the problem increases the gap between the number of people recorded as having voted (269,212) and the number of ballots cast (277,535) - a difference the newspaper previously placed at about 8,300.


The city's estimates had put the gap at more than 10,000.


Officials still have not fully explained that gap or provided access to registration cards that could not be processed because of illegibility or missing information. Those cards haven't been entered in the city database.


Thus, the Journal Sentinel could not include them in its look at Milwaukee election records. The newspaper has also found spotty compliance statewide with election laws that require communities to send out address confirmation cards, then submit any that are returned as undeliverable to the district attorney.