Reply #35: a dry-weather analysis of the Clermont County humidity factor for dsc

[freedomfries]

Consider the facts:
1. On August 2, 2005 at 9:30 PM, with 88% of the votes counted, the Hacket-Schmidt race was too close to call 50%-50%. A recount was forecast.
2. At 9:30PM, only 99 of 199 precincts in Clermont County, Schmidt's home turf, remained to be tallied. All returns stopped for the next 100 minutes due to "dampened ballots" "slowing down" the scanners.
3. At 10:49 PM, after a 100-minute-long "humidity" shutdown, final tallies showed Schmidt ahead by 52% to 48% in the Congressional district, and 58% to 42% in Clermont County. There would be no recount.
4. Post-mortem statistical analysis of the 199 Clermont precincts by TruthIsAll show that the correlation between voter participation and Schmidt vs. Hacket vote choice is inversely proportional, i.e. voter participation rate in each precinct grows in proportion to Schmidt vote, while it decreases in proportion to Hacket vote.
5. All Clermont precincts with a Hacket majority are under 200 votes. Hacket won all 36 small Clermont precincts and lost all 54 largest ones, a statistical impossibility TIA demonstrated.
6. Comparision of the Clermont County BOE screenshots at 9:30 PM and 10:49 PM show that the margin of difference between the two candidates jumped from 11.29% to 19.70% for the 91 precincts tallied during the "humidity" shutdown.
7. The average precinct size also increased from 121 to 174 voters in the 91 precincts with "dampened ballots".
8. Alltogether the humidity vote count yielded Jean Schmidt an additional margin of 3111 votes over her opponent, just a little less than her total margin of "victory" of 3977 votes over Paul Hacket in the whole Congressional district.
Where is our Pat Fitzgerald for election integrity?