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County Turnout Votes Recorded Over Collier 127409 128352 943 Duval 379257 379614 357 Lake 123751 123938 187 Leon 136229 136314 85 Okaloosa 89485 89707 222 Orange 386104 387752 1648
Also, Escambia County had 18193 under votes (11.29%) which is way out of line. The second highest undervote percentage is Baker County with 1.03%.
Remember, typically you will have a certain percentage of undervotes due to people choosing none of the above, or not registering a vote. This is typically around 0.5%. So when you see extra votes of, for instance, 1%, what you really have, in all likelyhood, is 1.5%
Other Counties registered fairly low undervote percentages, and it might bear looking into if we can get a hold of the precinct numbers or better yet, the individual voting machine numbers (like we got for Franklin County, Ohio, for instance.)
Remember, people... even if none of this yeilds enough votes to get Kerry into office, there is much more at stake here. We're talking about preventing future election rigging. If the people who perpetrated this fraud get away with it again and again, you can be sure they will keep on doing it. We have to uncover every attempt at rigging elections if we are ever going to be able to trust our system. It doesn't matter if one particular case made enough of a difference to swing an election. A crime was still committed.
by DEA on Sat Nov 06, 2004 at 02:11:05 PM PDT
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Your assertion that this is bigger than getting one person or another into office is also accurate. This is about preserving democracy and seeing that those who would rig the process need to be brought to justice. Not only do people need to believe that the process works - the process needs to actually work.
by FreeRadical on Sat Nov 06, 2004 at 02:42:43 PM PDT
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