The Federalist independently verified 33 voters in whose name at least two ballots were cast, sometimes in a different county, sometimes in the same county. //

While it is unclear whether these voters were actively attempting to vote twice or other issues were occurring, a data analyst who spoke with The Federalist on the basis of anonymity says that number may just scratch the surface of the problem, given how poorly the NCSBE maintains its voter rolls. //

“The state board is not doing the job that they need to do, and that is having data integrity,” the analyst said. “There is no data integrity there, and every time that they’re queried about it, they say it’s ‘safe and secure,’ and it’s garbage. It’s absolutely garbage. It’s the worst system I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve been working as a data analyst for about 35 years. This is an extraordinarily bad — I mean, it wouldn’t pass any kind of muster, any kind of audit, anywhere.”

The analyst said that with a simple computer programming fix, it would be extremely easy to track these double votes, but the NCSBE inexplicably refuses to adopt such a solution. The NCSBE did not respond to a request for comment from The Federalist.

Many of the voter records reviewed by The Federalist are bizarre. Some appear to show a voter casting a ballot in mid-October and an individual registering to vote under that voter’s name in early November, likely through a same-day registration process at an in-person early voting site. “When they do that same-day registration, they don’t check,” Ragan said. “There’s no duplicate check at the polling place for a duplicate registration.” //

Despite an RNC lawsuit asserting that there are at least 225,000 voters who registered to vote in North Carolina without providing either a driver’s license or the last four digits of a Social Security Number, as required by federal law, the NCSBE has thus far refused to remedy the situation.