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    the Suwanee number are VERY suspicious.

    Let me put it this way...there are 16 precincts, plus an "absentee/early voting" precinct.

    Now, if you add together all of the ballots cast on election day at a polling place, for Bush you get 6966, and for Kerry you get 3001.

    The Herald says they counted 6140 votes for Bush, and 2984 votes for Kerry.

    The difference is 826 votes for Bush, and 17 votes for Kerry.

    This doesn't make sense....

    Another interesting thing is that the Herald picked three counties that DON'T provide good detailed results by precinct.  Neither Lafayette nor Union have a precinct breakdown on their websites, and Suwanee does not separate out early voting and absentee ballots---and I could find no precinct based registration information on Suwannee either.

    I've been helping a researcher by converting precinct based data found on county web sites to spreadsheet form....and I've done over 25 counties, and THESE counties are exceptional in the lack of information they provide.

    by bushsux on Tue Nov 30, 2004 at 05:41:38 AM PDT

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    •  except that the reporters (none / 0)

      wrote:

      "The Herald counted almost 60 percent of the votes in Suwannee, where nearly 64 percent of voters are registered Democrats.

      The newspaper's total: 6,140 votes for Bush and 2,984 for Kerry, which nearly matched the county's official tally."

      They knew the tally in the 60% of precincts that they counted.  They didn't tell us.

      I guess you could believe that the Miami Herald reporters just lied.

      But that seems unlikely to me.

      You really have to believe that just about everyone is in on the conspiracy - the election authorities in dozens of counties, the reporters who investigate, the democratic chairs in those counties, the duped voters, few of whom have batted an eye at the Bush totals in their counties.

      That's silly, of course.  The fact is that there is no discrepancy in having fewer Kerry votes than the registered dems casting ballots in a southern county.  You sound stranger and stranger trying to insist that this is evidence of tampering.  You have to be unaware of how election technology works and of how people vote to continue touting this theory.

      by ne plus ultra on Tue Nov 30, 2004 at 03:35:27 PM PDT

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