The elections workers said they had discovered inconsistencies including attempts to register fictional characters, notorious criminals and dead celebrities.
But when the professor looked at the data, he discovered inconsistencies confirming his suspicions that Stapel was engaging in fraud.
Finally, investigators have uncovered aspects of his past that raise suspicions and have discovered inconsistencies in his accounts of his life.
"Dan Rather was a pivotal moment for me," he said, referring to the way bloggers discovered inconsistencies in the anchorman's 2004 600 Minutes" story about President Bush's military service.
The recent case of Green and Lacours is a great example of this: two graduate students discovered inconsistencies in a study of voter behavior in California, which prompted retraction of the flawed publication.
German newspaper Die Zeit claimed to have discovered inconsistencies in the most serious allegations made against Appelbaum, and the Guardian also found some conflicting accounts in at least three of the allegations of sexual assault.
Standing at the end of the line outside the jail waiting for visiting hours to begin one recent overcast afternoon, Mr. Sial said that federal officials had taken Mr. Mohammad, his friend and fellow Pakistani, into custody on Aug. 22 because they discovered inconsistencies on his immigration papers.
When officers from Greater Manchester Police travelled to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, they discovered inconsistencies between Chua's two nursing certificates.
But the Washington Post, and other news outlets, soon discovered inconsistencies in the riveting account that served as the crux of Erdely's 9,000-word 9,000-word "A Rape on Campus".
"After reviewing preliminary data for the Nielsen Audio Los Angeles PPM market, we discovered inconsistencies with the household ratings that led us to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the data," Nielsen said in a statement distributed to radio stations on Wednesday.
During sample analysis, we discovered inconsistencies with paternity and false allocations of children from different wives.
