Reply #82: Another valuable, very responsive post. Thank you! Have you uncov-

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ered outlier tallies and/or a geographic concentration of minor-candidate votes, or use of "wrong" templates even at single-precinct polling places?

Your frequencies for Badnarik and Peroutka at 136 single-precinct polling places seem rather high. I was in the process of trying to remove outlier clusters from the Badnarik and Peroutka tallies, and then recalculating mean and standard deviation for Badnarik, Peroutka, and both minor candidates together. I expected to get at least down into the "teens", Your post prompts me to examine the single-precinct locations for outliers, too.

And thanks for anwering my question about spoiled ballots within Cuyahoga. Subsequently, I looked on the SOS website and found the following, which deviates slightly from your answer. Is my arithmetic faulty, or are you using prior-to-final tallies? We're not that far apart.

The total number of votes cast for president in Cuyahoga was 673,766, according to http://serform2.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/2004/gen/pres.htm
But the number of votes cast overall in Cuyahoga was 687,260, according to http://serform2.sos.state.oh.us/sos/results/2004/gen/voterTurn.htm
This leaves a difference of 13,494.