Way back in Oct of 2012 I posted this statistical analysis of the Ohio Republican Primary precinct-by-precinct results.
I just got off the phone with the Ohio Sect. of State's office and they say that they may have the precinct level results available some time in the next 3-4 weeks because there was some kind of problem with the data. . .
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As you probably recall, much to the enjoyment of Kossaks everywhere, Karl Rove had a major meltdown after Ohio was called for Barak (Hussein-I just like to use his full name!) Obama.
He was so certain about precinct counts still coming in from republican dominated counties like Butler, Delaware and Warren, and yet, when the final counts came in his horse lost the race.
However, after the election, a group of shady characters and hacktivists called "Anonymous" came out and said that they had hacked into Rove's servers and thwarted a vote stealing campaign.
The interesting thing about this is that the servers went down in Ohio just as they were tallying the votes just like they did in 2004 and apparently during the Republican Primary.
here is Sam Seder from The Majority Report talking about it:
Well, I wanted to follow up with the work I did in 2012, to check on if there was any difference between this election that was supposedly affected by Anonymous and how it compared with the precinct-by-precinct results coming out of Ohio from:
the 2012 Republican Primary results
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the 2008 presidential results (Note: these are sorted biggest to smallest so they look different but the effect is the same, Barack won the smaller precincts and McCain won the big ones just like Romney did compared to Santorum in the Republican Primary.)
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So I just got off the phone because I wanted to do a similar analysis in ohio but the precinct-by-precinct data is not available.
they said,
"there are some problems with the data and we are still putting it together but it should be available in the next 3 or 4 weeks."
You can be sure I will be back to check on them.
background reading: