Reply #22: It's been good talking with you Paul; here's a bit more on Yakima...

[understandinglife]

....hopefully, when we have the precinct spreads on Yakima, we'll be able to look for the patterns already detected for precincts in Yakima.

For Yakima:

Kerry received ~ 0.77% more absentee (AB) than election-day (ED) votes.
AB -- Kerry 20205; Bush 30463; Total 51432 (includes others)
ED -- Kerry 8269; Bush 12889; Total 21473 (includes others)

Murray received ~ 1.5% more absentee than election-day votes
AB -- Murray 22300; Nethercut 27530; Total 50993 (includes others)
ED -- Murray 9072; Nethercut 11785; Total 21247 (includes others)

Matheson received ~ 1.8% LESS absentee than election-day votes
AB -- Matheson 21320; Hastings 29367; Total 50747 (includes others)
ED -- Matheson 9234; Hastings 11727; Total 20991 (includes others)

Gregoire received ~ 3.1% more absentee than election-day votes
AB -- Gregoire 17939; Rossi 32056; Total 50995 (includes others)
ED -- Gregoire 6796; Rossi 13988; Total 21193 (includes others)

I do suggest you remove your cellphone number from these threads; you may get a bunch of calls from less than well-intentioned folk.

Peace.