Central Oregon Times

Voter Reference Foundation has issued the following press release:

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

As the 17th and 18th states added to the database, South Dakota and Oregon will join Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio,  Virginia, and Wisconsin. The database now includes over 36 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 South Dakota, the discrepancy is 4,735. In Oregon, the discrepancy is 31,619.

State | Discrepancy

South Dakota | 4,735

Oregon | 31,619

Alaska | 3,326

Colorado | 439

Connecticut | 37,256

Florida | 158,319

Georgia | 3,787

Idaho | 11,147

Michigan | 74,135

Minnesota | 48,328

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)

“Our quest to build a nationwide database continues, and as it grows – with nearly 40 percent of the country’s population now included, its usefulness increases exponentially,” Gina Swoboda, Executive Director of VRF said. “South Dakota and Oregon are vastly different states, but they fit together as puzzle pieces in this innovative effort.”