ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Glenn Wiggle welcomes back Dr. Andrew Paquette, an independent research analyst whose forensic analysis of public voter registration databases across more than a dozen states has produced seven peer-reviewed publications documenting hidden algorithms embedded in state voter rolls. Paquette walks through the critical distinction between voter fraud (isolated individuals casting illegal ballots) and election fraud (corruption built into the system itself), explaining how he's identified roughly 1.5 million current illegal "clone" records in New York alone, plus another half million deleted ones. He details a particularly damning find from the recent Texas Republican primary between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, where an algorithm took a genuine check-in list of 735 voters and generated 4,110 fake records with assigned ID numbers. The conversation digs into why this matters more than the headline vote totals, the SEC's "threshold of materiality" standard that would never tolerate this level of corruption in the corporate world, why 23 states have refused federal requests for voter roll data, how Letitia James personally shut down a citizen audit in New York by threatening criminal charges, and why Paquette believes the real fix isn't litigating individual races but refusing to certify future elections until the infrastructure is repaired. Glenn and Andrew also get into why both parties seem uninterested in cleaning this up, the problem of unopposed judicial races in New York, and what El Salvador's judicial overhaul might teach us.
00:00:24 - Introducing Dr. Andrew Paquette and his voter roll research
00:03:38 - Voter fraud vs. election fraud, and why one gets investigated and the other doesn't
00:07:13 - The "threshold of materiality" and why courts use the wrong standard
00:14:00 - Federal requests for voter data and the 23 states refusing to comply
00:18:11 - The Texas Cornyn/Paxton primary algorithm that generated 4,110 fake records
00:22:26 - Why the Save Act stalls and the case that both parties benefit from the system
00:26:24 - The 2022 New York races, Hochul, Letitia James, and Zeldin
00:31:20 - Data validation, the simple fix nobody implements
00:38:03 - 2 million illegal records in New York and Tish James shutting down the citizens audit
00:46:11 - The El Salvador model, captured institutions, and unopposed judicial races
