Technical Report: District of Columbia Voter Registration Data
by Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
The Washington Times on Sunday published an article, Voter fraud is easy with 13,000 in Maryland still on DC records.
That article reminded me that I never published my technical report about DC voter registration data from 2011, which should be relevant to the discussion.
Here is that report (PDF, 53 pages): Technical Report: District of Columbia Voter Registration Data, Oct. 5, 2011. More…
The Ghost of @JohnBrownsGhost’s Twitter Account
by Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
The new look of @JohnBrownsGhost Twitter account late Thursday after a CJOnline report revealed Tyler Longpine was the person behind the account.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported the anonymous @JohnBrownsGhost’s twitter account was no longer anonymous.
Tweets Thursday evening took note of this change:
2013-05-16 18:29 @TheKansasRino: So @JohnBrownsGhost cover has been blown. Such a shame, I rather enjoyed that account.
2013-05-16 18:33 @manspeaker: Way to ruin the #ksleg feed Tim Carpenter. @JohnBrownsGhost was the only spice in its life. @tlongpine shouldn’t have to apologize.
Analysis of FEC filing by Presidential Inaugural Committee 2013
by Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
Inauguration of President Barack Obama in January. Picture credit: WhiteHouse.gov.
Late Saturday the Presidential Inaugural Committee electronically filed its “Report of Donations Accepted” with the Federal Election Commission.
The report showed $44.6 million raised with 108 corporations and organizations giving slightly more than half.
Over 10,500 individual donors gave the other half.
This first report was due 90 days after the inauguration.
I downloaded the FEC file with the inaugural data early Sunday and have analyzed the 16,274 lines using an R script. The tables and figures below summarize the information.
There is no legal requirement for the inaugural committee to report expenditures, so that information is not available.
Finding White House “Good Government” visitors
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
In his recent article, For good government groups, what did all that access earn?, my associate Mark Lisheron looked at the transparency community’s view of open and accountable government under Barack Obama’s presidency.
Our analysis looked at White House access by good government groups as documented by the White House visitor logs.
Since the departure of Norman Eisen as President Obama’s special counsel on ethics and government reform in 2010, the White House visitor logs show a linear downward trend in access by good government groups as measured by White House visits. More…
Two-thirds of White House visitor records about tourists
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
Two out of three visit records released by the White House describe tourists that see the “visitors office”, and identify no specific person visited.
The remaining records describe official visitors, who see the President, the Vice-President, the First Lady, or various members of the White House staff.
The primary purpose for studying White House visitor logs is to understand what people, how often, in what groups visit the White House to attempt to influence public policies. More…
Fewer Records, More Visitors in Release by White House
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
On Friday the White House released almost 570,000 fewer raw visitor records than in January, but that file contained almost 59,000 new visitor records. How is that possible? More…
600K duplicate records in White House visitor logs?
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
The White House released a new file of visitor data with nearly 3.6 million records on Friday. The corresponding White House blog posting announced, “More than 2.9 million records released.”
Is the visitor count 3.6 million or 2.9 million? Why are there so many “extra” records in the CSV data file than announced in the blog posting? More…
Google Map: Large Donors to Presidential Inaugural 2005
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
In the analysis of FEC records from the 55th Presidential Inaugural Committee Records from 2005 , there were 226 people or corporations identified who made aggregate donations of $50,000 or more. Find these donors on a Google map below. [See similar map for 2009 Inauguration donors.]
Analysis says 603 donors giving $5000 or more contributed over 85% of all donations to the 2005 Inaugural. View a separate Google Map of $5,000 or more donors. [See similar map for 2009 Inauguration donors.] More…
FEC removes four extra $20 million records from 2005 Inaugural Committee Report
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
This article reviews information available online and in FEC data files from the 55th Presidential Inaugural Committee Records from 2005 and parallels similar analysis of FEC Presidential Inaugural Committee 2009 records.
The analysis follows a description of some bad data records that were identified and fixed by the FEC in their online system.
The 18,794 itemized contributions in 2004-2005 from 15,680 individuals or corporations totaled about $42.8 million, which was nearly 100% of the total reported contributions.
The median aggregate contribution from individuals/corporations was about $316. Analysis suggests 999 contributions of $1,460 of more were statistical “outliers”.
There were 226 aggregate contributions of $50,000 or more. The largest single contributor was Boone Pickens from Dallas, TX, who gave a total of $500,000 in two $250,000 donations. More…
Google Map: Large Donors to Presidential Inaugural 2009
By Earl F Glynn | Franklin Center
In the Analysis of FEC Presidential Inaugural Committee 2009 records, 538 people were identified contributing from 444 addresses with aggregate donations of $50,000 or more. View these donors on a Google map below. [See similar map for 2005 Inauguration donors.]
Analysis suggested 1,333 contributions by individuals of about $5,400 or more are high statistical “outliers.” View a separate Google Map of these “statistical outliers.” [See similar map for 2005 Inauguration donors.] More…