Reply #82: Graphs of popular vote-- is there more info there?

[1democracy]

Thanks for the links. The graphs were excellent. Was the analysis for the 2000 election ever done for comparison, as mentioned in the thread?

Also, what was the likely scenario for the postulated fraud? I'd like to calculate how many votes were lost due to voter suppression. Then do a calculation on the conversion of 10% of Kerry to Bush votes, as postulated by others to figure how many Bush could have gotten this way. This would be a broad background all day, I'd presume... except on the machines that weren't tampered with. Therefore, it would be interesting to just look at the accumulating votes* as they came in on the touch screen machines alone and see what these patterns looked like, unobscured by "honest" counts.(I think AP had direct feeds on all election day data so maybe it could be obtained). Then compare with machines/methods where fraud unlikely.

RE: accumulating votes- is all of this just the summation of final data after polls have closed in each state or would there be reports of partial counts in each state as the day wore on? (If so, this would be a way to closely track shifts in results.)

Would some decision have been made during Nov 2 to generate the vapor votes? How would that look on a graph? What would show it most clearly?