Federal Data Users

Massive Data Institute did a detailed read of the unsigned "Beginning Analysis" and compiled a point-by-point critique of both methodological and process concerns. https://mdi.georgetown.edu/response-to-voter-record-analysis/ ------------------------------ ...

My understanding is that rounding is the new way of "protecting privacy." And absolutely false matches and unmatched records are a problem--that the Census Bureau would typically point out--in the analysis. I'm going to post a link below to a point-by-point ...

The Massive Data Institute has published this incredibly helpful "dissection" of this report . They lay out the checklist the Census Bureau uses before linking data, and this violates 6 of the checks that would have stopped this report from being undertaken ...

The state-level numbers of noncitizen voters look suspiciously round...e.g, 500 for Maryland. Could it be 499 or 501? These are obviously rough estimates but the text (and I'm sure most news articles about the report) make them seem like counts. I'm ...

Now that this report has been released at the national level we should be alert for similar instances being requested at the state level. Whether this is possible to produce is unclear to me but perhaps with access to an RDC it might be. In the early ...