# Why We Vote Ep. 173: Dr. Andrew Paquette on Voter Roll Algorithms and Fake Ballots

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-6674661)
Published: 2026-05-13T05:23:05+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/why-we-vote-ep-173-dr-andrew-paquette-on-voter-roll-algorithms-and-fake-ballots/
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Duration seconds: 5730

## Resource

CannCon and Ashe in America welcome Dr. Andrew Paquette, known online as Zark Files, research director for New York Citizens Audit and one of the most technically rigorous voices in election integrity work. Dr. Paquette walks through five years of voter roll analysis across more than a dozen states, explaining how he reverse engineered four distinct algorithms embedded in New York's voter registration ID number system, discovered 1.5 million cloned records, and obtained photographically identical duplicate signatures from counties that should not have had any clones at all. He explains why the system is structurally designed to prevent anyone from linking a ballot to the fake voter who generated it, and why that means the question of how many races were affected may be permanently unanswerable. The conversation moves to Bexar County, Texas, where Dr. Paquette analyzed a check-in list showing over 4,000 fake voter check-ins injected after polls closed through a third-party cloud system called EPulse, which serves 29 states. He closes on the Save America Act, the limits of legislative fixes, and why he believes the entire election infrastructure needs to be scrapped and rebuilt.

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