Everyone on both sides claims they want every vote to be counted. So do I, and if that means George Bush is President, so be it. Each vote should only be counted once, though. I’m sure everyone’s already heard about the error in Franklin County, Ohio. Almost 4000 extra votes for Bush (which has been corrected, thankfully). Unforunately, there’s more.

The following pages were copied from the Florida Dept of State website. Here are the originals: [turnout votes] and my copies: [turnout votes]. I made copies because I don’t trust the originals to stay the same, as they will be changed with updated counts, most likely.

Now, take a look at the turnout in Palm Beach county: 452,061. Add up the total number of votes for President in that county: 542,835. Somehow, 90,774 more votes were cast than people showed up at the polls.

Miami-Dade: Turnout of 716,574. Total votes for President: 768,553. 51,979 more votes than voters.

All in all, there were more reported votes than voters in 10 counties in Florida. These were the two biggest, by a large margin, and also happen to be heavily Democratic counties. The other counties:
Glades: +742, Highlands: +7495, Lake: +187, Leon: +85, Okaloosa: +222, Orange: +1648, Osceola: +18598, Volusia: +19306. Let’s take a look at the ones with large mistakes. Highlands, Osceola, Volusia (and of course Palm Beach and Miami-Dade).

Highlands looks reasonable. I might even be convinced that Miami-Dade does as well, though Kerry only gaining 8000 votes when the turnout was 150,000 higher than 2000 seems odd. A switch from Gore winning by almost 2000 to Kerry losing by almost 4500 in Osceola? Strange. An increase in turnout by 117,801 in Palm Beach county, which Gore took with 64%… and Kerry doesn’t gain on that? I find that hard to believe. And losing 11,000 votes in Volusia, again with higher turnout, which Gore took with 54%? I just don’t buy it.

Something’s wrong here. We know, because the vote counts are wrong, that the numbers have to be wrong somewhere. I don’t know where. Thanks to the Diebold electronic voting machines with no paper trail, we can’t even do a recount. It’d be the equivalent of having the computers just spit out the same stored numbers they did the first time. No auditing. No paper trail. No hand recount. Obvious vote count inaccuracies.

Thanks to Gray at DailyKos for most of these numbers.

Update: Highlands, Osceola, and Volusia used paper ballots. Recounts there should be possible. Palm Beach and Miami-Dade used touchscreen with no paper trail.

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Comment by Ahud

2004-11-06 06:03:13

I’ve been disgusted at the fraudulent actions taken by both sides in this election year. What you wrote only adds flame to my personal inferno of outrage. Since I’m practically cut off from legitimate press here, I hope you’ll continue to post updates.

Oh, and I’m seriously considering stealing your newest alert graphics. You think it would be over the top to have both sets at the same time on my site? heh

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Comment by Andy

2004-11-08 16:09:07

Hmm. Someone mentioned that perhaps the turnout numbers represent people who showed up in person, and the vote count includes absentee ballots. But I’m having difficulty interpretting the Absentee Column in the turnout data

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