Reply #168: Connally votes

[minvis]

To be honest, I'm not that convinced of the larger Connally vote being proof of fraud. Don't get me wrong. I believe dirty tricks and vote theft was done in Ohio and other states as well, I just don't think a down ticket candidate getting more votes than the Presidential candidate is automatically a sign of fraud. What many of you may not know and I didn't know it either until I saw copies of the actual ballots is that the Connally/Moyer race officially was non-partisan. There is no notation on the ballot of who the Democratic or Republican candidate is in that race.

I did, however, look at not only Connally's precinct vote totals, but also every other Democratic candidate running in Butler County as well. I compared their precinct vote totals to Kerry's precinct vote totals. What I did find that was interesting is that in the precincts that Kerry won, every down ticket Democratic candidate received less actual votes than Kerry. That is just what one would expect. However, in the Bush precincts, many of the down ticket Democrats got more actual votes than Kerry. I'd definitely say that the number of votes siphoned off from Kerry was sizable, but not the size of the Connally differential, perhaps 1,000 or so.

I've got the information on an Excel spreadsheet, so feel free and PM me and I'll be happy to send you the info.