Reply #255: Re: but it isn't true (although other stuff in the article is)

[PhilipDC]

OTOH said:
"In fact, two big mistakes here.
"In what may be the single most astounding fact from the election, one in every four Ohio citizens who registered to vote in 2004 showed up at the polls only to discover that they were not listed on the rolls, thanks to GOP efforts to stem the unprecedented flood of Democrats eager to cast ballots."
No, absolutely not. That would be astounding, if it were true. I don't know how the Rolling Stone fact checkers missed this. Here's what RFK's source (the DNC report) actually says: "Our investigation and analysis reveal that more than one quarter of all voters in Ohio reported some kind of problem on Election Day, including long lines, problems with registration status and polling locations, absentee ballots and provisional ballots and unlawful identification requirements at the polls." These are all big problems, but they aren't all being "not listed on the rolls."


OTOH, you're misreading the numbers...the article quote talks about 1 in 4 NEW voters while your report quote talks about 1 in 4 of ALL voters.
Here's a more likely quote from the report that they based the 1 in 4 new voters on:

New registrants were much more likely to be required to cast ballots
provisionally: 26.5 percent of voters who first registered to vote in
2004 were required to cast a provisional ballot versus 2.5 percent of
voters who registered before 2004.