What Went On In Warren County ,OH Behind Closed Doors?

Noticed this in the update article.

There is also a massive twist in Ohio.  The county of Warren, which did it's vote count in secret, claiming the FBI had warned them they had to because they were under terrorist threat... well, their alibi has crumbled.

As Olbermann reports: "The FBI did not notify anyone in Warren County of any specific terrorist threat to Warren County before Election Day," FBI spokesman Michael Brooks told Enquirer reporters Erica Solvig and Dan Horn."

I mean, what could they possibly have been doing....um, boosting Bush's vote count perhaps?

Were they a 'central tabulating center'??
Can someone answer that very simple question??

Who was in there? We need affidavits affirming what went on behind closed doors.

•  Ground Zero

  Let's get it going. This could be ground zero.

  by Glickman on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 10:49:21 PM PDT

•  Sorry to be a downer...

  but this has been analysed to death.  Was it really worth a diary all on it's own?  

  by b2witte on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 10:51:50 PM PDT

  •  hey

    don't worry you're not a downer , you're a jackass.

    by Glickman on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 10:56:34 PM PDT

    •  That's donkey. Thanks for posting.

      by b2witte on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 11:01:14 PM PDT

  •  aoeu

    So what's the analysis?

    by TealVeal on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 11:58:21 PM PDT

    •  Needs a fierce investigation

      My point of the diary is that a fierce investigation needs to take place at that Warren County vote tallying room.Maybe some more thousands of votes were padded for Bush. I mean,what the fuck is up with a phony terrorist alert to shut out outside observers?

      by Glickman on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 12:37:51 AM PDT

•  What the fuck went on in there?

  yeah, but what the fuck went on in there?

  by Glickman on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 10:54:54 PM PDT

•  who counted the vote

  Is there information available as to who was counting the votes?

  Were there dems present? Actual dems, or Zell Millerites?

  by Skipbidder on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 10:59:09 PM PDT

•  Names of who was in there?

  That's my point. We need names and sworn statements as to who was in there behind closed doors ,counting votes during a fake terrorism alert.

  by Glickman on Thu Nov 11, 2004 at 11:03:49 PM PDT

•  What happened to the 8 million Gore Voters?

  How 2004 Voters Voted in 2000
                   No.             Bush            Kerry        Nader/        Estimated        Actual         Diff. Btw.              of Votes                                                Other            2004            2000         2004&2000                            

  Didn't
  Vote    19,801,997      8,910,899    10,693,078    198,020    19,801,997                 0      19,801,997

  Bush    50,087,404    45,579,538      4,507,866             0     50,087,404    50,456,169      -368,765

  Gore    43,098,464     4,309,846     38,788,618             0     43,098,464    50,996,116    -7,897,652

  Other    3,494,470       733,839       2,096,682     663,949       3,494,470    3,874,040        -379,570

  TOTAL  116,482,336   59,534,122    56,086,245    861,969    116,482,336  105,326,325    

  Using the 2004 Exit Poll Data you mentioned, the exit poll data adjusted to reflect the final election results, you will notice that there are almost 8 million Gore voters missing in the 2004 election according to the exit poll results.

  In 2004, there were:

  19,801,997 people who didn't vote in 2000
  50,087,404 who had voted for Bush in 2000
  43,098,464 who had voted for Gore in 2000
  3,494,470 who had voted for another candidate in 2000

  In 2000, Bush received a little over 50 million votes.  Gore received almost 51 million votes.

  But on the 2004 exit polls, we see that only 43 million people who voted in 2004 said that they had voted for Gore in 2000. So, the question is ... where did the other 8 million Gore voters from 2000 go? Why wouldn't they have voted in this election? Or did they? And if they did .. are the exit polls so flawed that they're the reason for the missing 8 million Gore voters or are the election results the problem?

  If you look at the Bush vote, in 2004 Bush got 45.6 million of his 2000 vote plus 4.3 million of the Gore 2000 vote plus over 700,000 people who had voted for "other" in 2000 plus 8.9 million people who had not voted in 2000.

  However, if you look at the Kerry vote, he got only 38.8 million of the Gore vote. And Bush only got 4.3 million of the Gore vote.  But yet, we know that Gore got almost 51 million votes in 2000. So, where are these almost 8 million missing Gore voters?

  Note: The difference in the actual 2004 votes and the estimated 2004 votes are due to rounding since the exit poll numbers were reported in whole percents on the CNN website.

  by Jon B Good on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 12:10:27 AM PDT

•  Warren County, Ohio Data

  Bush's Vote Margin Widened Considerably from 2000:
                                2004       2000     Increase
  VOTES
  Bush/Bush             66,523     48,318        
  Kerry/Gore            25,399     19,142
  All Votes Cast        93,231     70,109     33.11%
  Bush Vote Margin   41,124     29,176     40.95%
  Reg. Voters          125,165     96,536     29.66%

  The 2004 Bush vote margin over the Dem Candidate increased from the year 2000 by 11,948 votes.

  Census 2000 indicates that there were 114,511 people living in Warren County above the age of 18.

  If you look at the precinct data for Warren County, you will see many precincts where the turnout exceeds 80%.  Now that's some turnout. Every 8 out of 10 people of voting age and registered in those precincts voted.

  16,803 of the 28,629 newly registered voters were registered after March 2004 but before November 2, 2004

  by Jon B Good on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 12:16:31 AM PDT

  •  Vote Padding for Bush?

    great info, thanks. How many precincts nationally exceeded 80%? That smells of vote padding for Bush.

    by Glickman on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 12:39:26 AM PDT

  •  Thanks

    Good analysis.  Closed doors would sure help with "turnout"!

    by Athena on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 03:57:59 AM PDT

•  Highest % of Bush Votes amongst.......

  From Brad Blog

  Citing "homeland security concerns", Warren County, OH was alone in locking out media from their counting of ballots on Election Night. They were amongst the last to report their tallies that night, and according to Ohio's Election Night website Warren County ended up having the highest percentage of Bush votes amongst all of Ohio counties that had a total vote turnout greater than 22,500.

  Warren 92,251 votes - Bush: 72.1% Kerry: 27.53%

  There were only four counties with a higher percentage votes for Bush, and they all had 22,279 voters or less:

  Mercer 20,058 votes - Bush: 74.89% Kerry: 24.55%

  Putnam 18,631 votes - Bush: 76.20% Kerry: 23.34%

  Holmes 10,976 votes - Bush: 75.61% Kerry: 23.89%

  Auglaize 22,279 votes - Bush: 73.78% Kerry: 25.71%
  

  by Glickman on Fri Nov 12, 2004 at 12:51:52 AM PDT