Sunshine Sentinel

The Voter Reference Foundation has issued the following press release:

DOWNERS GROVE, IL — VoteRef.com, a website dedicated to voter and election data compiled by the Voter Reference Foundation (VRF), added Florida to the public, searchable site.

As the 15th state added to the database, Florida will join Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio,  Virginia, and Wisconsin. The database now covers 32 percent of the country’s population.

Full transparency into election records and results is needed to restore faith in our elections process. The work being done by VRF continues to highlight the need to ensure accurate voter rolls are being maintained, and to provide the public access to these rolls so that they may search the data and report errors to election officials.

The process of reviewing certified election data in each state begins with a comparison of the records of ballots cast as reported by local election officials with the voter history compiled by the state for the 2020 election.

Discrepancies in this comparison have been found to be as low as 42 in North Carolina and as high as tens of thousands in other states — with more data coming in each week. VRF will continue to add to the database as they receive reports, with the goal of completing all 50 states in 2022.

In Florida, the discrepancy is 158,319, or 1.42%. The highest discrepancies thus far as a percentage of the total ballots cast, is CT at 2.03% and VA at 1.43%.

State | Discrepancy

Florida | 158,319

Alaska | 3,326

Colorado | 439

Connecticut | 37,256

Georgia | 3,787

Idaho | 11,147

Michigan | 74,135

Montana | 1,896

Nevada | 8,952

New Jersey | (37,944)

New Mexico | 3,844

North Carolina | (42)

Ohio | 22,425

Virginia | 63,984

Wisconsin | (3,033)

“Florida has done tremendous work in the field of election integrity. 158,319 is a large number, and although it represents just 1.42% of the total ballots cast in the 2020 General Election, it nevertheless reveals that there is more work yet to be done,” Gina Swoboda, Executive Director of VRF said. “By providing the public with access to the nation’s voter rolls, and illuminating discrepancies in the data, VRF is making the public aware that state election authorities have work to do to ensure the voter rolls are accurate and up-to-date.”