Some good ohio data

[mulethree]

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/939

Favoritism in the suburbs
by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
November 27, 2004

"The idea was to discourage turnout in Democratic wards by forcing voters to wait in long lines at the polling places, while creating no such inconveniences to voters in predominantly Republican suburbs. This was important because Bush s margin of victory in the suburbs was, as expected, less than Kerry s margin of victory in the city, as the following table shows: "

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"I obtained from the Franklin County Board of Elections all the data I needed in order to calculate, ward by ward, and precinct by precinct: (1) The ratio of registered voters per voting machine. (2) Percent turnout, calculated as total ballots cast divided by the number of registered voters. (3) Percent for Kerry, calculated as votes cast for Kerry divided by votes cast for president. I arranged the data, ward by ward, according to the ratio of registered voters per voting machine.

DISTRIBUTION OF VOTING MACHINES, BY WARD

Ward Voters/ Percent Kerry
Machine Turnout Percent
HARRISBURG * 118.5 66.24 47.06
LOCKBOURNE * 121 46.28 40.54 "

etc.

[The Doctor.]

1. What sucks is that that still doesn't prove anything...

Just a solid pattern of disfranchisement.

(Oh yeah... Good post BTW, thank you.)

[goclark]

2. Kick and thanks for the hard work!

[seito]

3. Disenfranchisement is Fraud

Thanks

[mulethree]

4. A picture of it

http://home.comcast.net/~lawrence_hall/Franklin_County.xls

Green line shows that the more people per voting machine - the longer the lines - the fewer stick around to vote.

The red line shows that the more your neighborhood likes Bush, the more voting machines per person, the shorter the lines, the better the turnout.