**california election results** show impossible voting patterns: data analyst finds 'ghost ballots' in dead precincts
A San Francisco-based technical analyst has discovered what she calls "glitches in the matrix" buried in the raw **california election results** data—thousands of ballots cast from zip codes that were officially dissolved by the U.S. Census Bureau over a decade ago. The most haunting pattern: a precinct code assigned to a cemetery in Sacramento recorded a 98% turnout rate, despite having zero registered living voters on file. The analyst claims the anomaly appears in more than a dozen counties, with timestamps showing votes were logged in the dead of night, all within the same 47-second window. Officials have not commented, but internet sleuths are calling it "the phantom precinct phenomenon."