Reply #12: Remember one thing before you go into this....

[WCGreen]

That some of the precincts in Cleveland have high density elder populations...

Most notably Ward 6, Ward 14 and Ward 15...

The absentee ballots are not rolled into the precinct totals but are kept seperate...

They do, however, show up on individual voting records as that person having voted...

So remember, to account for outside factors that could effect the results of your research...

How do I know this...

I know because I organized and help implement several GOVT votes in Cuyahoga County during the mid 90's to 2000...

I also served on the BOE for about nine months...

I also used the data all the time and discovered these discrepancies but then was able to see why they happened...

Factor in outside stuff before you make your final conclusions....