Kerry lost 369 votes at one Ohio polling place, 115 at another, hundreds at others

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Thursday December 02, 2004 · 1:46 AM PST

2004/12/02 · 01:46

Down below the fold is what I found before. I just found the explanation.
OK, here's the precincts in question:

Precinct	Badnarik	Bush	Kerry	Peroutka
Cleveland 4F	0	20	299	215
Cleveland 4N	164	12	334	10

So, we go to the Cuyahoga County BOE website, and find the ballots for these precincts.
4F: Kerry, Disqualified, Peroutka, Badnarik, Bush
4N: Badnarik, Bush, Kerry, Disqualified, Peroutka

We also find that they both voted at the same polling place:
Benedictine High School
2900 MLK Jr. Drive
Cleveland, OH 44104

It looks like a lot of voters voted using the other precinct's order. 215 Kerry votes lost in 4F, 164 Kerry votes lost in 4N, and 10 Bush votes lost in 4N. That's a net loss of 369 votes for Kerry, all at one polling place.

Cleveland 4F ballot order	Cleveland 4F results	Cleveland 4N results	Cleveland 4N ballot order
Kerry	299	164	Badnarik
Disqualified	0	12	Bush
Peroutka	215	334	Kerry
Badnarik	0	0	Disqualified
Bush	20	10	Peroutka

534 of 4F's 563 votes had a valid vote for President
520 of 4N's 532 votes had a valid vote for President

Looking Cleveland 3B & 3I, which voted together, it was not an isolated problem

Cleveland 3B ballot order	Cleveland 3B results	Cleveland 3I results	Cleveland 3I ballot order
Kerry	471	72	Peroutka
Disqualified	0	1	Badnarik
Peroutka	1	13	Bush
Badnarik	44	467	Kerry
Bush	18	0	Disqualified

A net loss of 115 votes for Kerry at this polling place

In addition to other glaring 3rd party problems, this may have introduced more complicated problems. Precincts Cleveland 11- C,D, and P vote together. C has a lot of Bush votes, Kerry did best in P
C: Bush 180 Kerry 322
D: Bush 125 Kerry 331
P: Bush 116 Kerry 369
Well, wouldn't you know it, Bush was #1 on the C ballot, and Kerry was #1 on the P ballot. We can't really quantify what effect if any there was here, but if there was an effect, it would have most likely hurt Kerry more than Bush.

Old stuff: Precincts with the most 3rd party votes. There are other suspicious precincts.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/1/52932/8333

Source of the precinct level data:
http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/boe/results/history/2004/E...

Graph showing how most of the precincts with high levels 3rd party votes had Kerry doing much better than Bush:
http://onfinite.com/libraries/205251/c8a.jpg

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