In the 2022 New York Senate Race, a third party candidate saw her vote totals go down from over 50,000 to less than 26,000. How is that possible? In the 2016 presidential race, an independent candidate in Travis County Texas saw his votes drop from an initial count of 8080 to a mere 108. We ask, are there legitimate explanations for this and demonstrate a vote stealing mechanism that could have this affect.
Filmmaker and TEDx Speaker. Ms. Friesdat’s work has been featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Co-founder & Director of SMART Elections, a nonpartisan project to make U.S. elections inclusive and accurate.
