Reply #9: Telling trend... I was looking in to a couple of small counties in FL, and

[bj2110]

Noticed that Hardee county reported the following when the precinct totals are added up:

Registered Voters: 12306
"Cards Cast": 14569
"Votes Counted": 7289
"Total Votes": 7249

I was hugely confused until I realized that "Cards Cast" were exactly double that of "Votes Counted". I dismissed it as a clerical type error.

The one thing that always bothered me was that % turnout numbers were based on the "cards cast" column, which of course totaled to 118%, when in reality it was only 59%, which is very low, btw. In a few precincts (there were only 11), election day turnouts were around only 20%.! Now, there was a large amount of absentee & early votes, but 20% on election day?

This is a county tith a high Dem registration, but overwhelmingly voted for Bush. It is not a northern Florida "Dixiecrat" county. It's just slightly southeast of Tampa Bay, i.e. east of Sarasota and Manatee counties. Hardee uses optical scan machines.

Questions are:

How does a field of data in a database get doubled?
Why was the turnout so low?
Why did the turnout % not get changed in the official results?

Maybe, the answer to all of these questions is that it's just a small county and people make mistakes. But it casts a little doubt on just how these votes were counted.

Anyway, I thought this was a decent place to share this. And with your demonstration of missing votes in New Mexico (which is amazing and stinks of fraud), it reminded me of it.