Reply #6: Can these precincts be recounted?

[Bill Bored]

Or is there no paper ballot trail?

Look also at Hillsboro 119 and 121 for example where Bush got 77.2% in both.

I haven't looked at all of these, but actually, you would expect to see similar percentages in same-county precincts, and when you look at their actual vote margins, they are similar but not exact, which would be too much of a coincidence.

I applaud this recount effort though. Can anyone do it in FL, or just FL residents? Can any of the counties you list be recounted?

I think the key is to realize that there are so many precincts in each state that it would only take a few votes each to change an outcome.

Divide Bush's margin of victory by the number of precincts in FL, and divide that answer by 2. You'll get the number of votes per precinct to switch from Kerry to Bush to completely reverse the outcome. It's less than that of course if the margin was smaller.