Palm Beach County Logs 88,000, More Votes Than Voters

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/spectrum/archives/000715.html

According to the official election results posted on the Palm Beach County election website, 542,835 ballots were cast for a presidential candidate while only 454,427 voters turned out for the election (including absentee). This leaves a discrepancy of 88,408 votes cast for the presidential candidates.

Palm Beach County's supervisor of elections is Theresa LePore who is known for the 2000 Presidential Election and the notorious "butterfly ballot" that caused confusion among seniors and other Floridians.

Other election oddities occurred throughout Florida with some counties registering a 400% increase in expected voter turnout among Republicans while Democrats supposedly experienced a -60% decline in expected support within certain counties. The 50+ counties experiencing the high percentage fluctuations in expected turnout used optical scan voting machines on November 2nd.

Vote discrepancies were also found in Gahanna, Ohio which gave an extra 4,000 votes to President Bush. The error was explained away by Franklin County administrators as a "glitch" in the electronic voting system.

Update: Palm Beach County has updated their numbers and added 91,802 absentee ballots and 1,041 provisional ballots. The vote totals for president increased by 1,543. To view an archived copy of the previous report, click here. While Palm Beach County appears to have accounted for the discrepancy, this underscores the flaws in the system and data compilation

Gee, I guess it really is the bloggers fault that exit polling data was wrong huh?

FIX FIX FIX FIX FIX!!!!!!!!!!

Lu Cifer, SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT THESE GODDAMN BBV MACHINES

REPEAT

88,000???????????????????????????????????????????????

Now I am certain that Bush stole this election from Kerry.

what Randi Rhodes has to say about this latest report on Monday. She used to reside in Palm Beach County and was at the forefront of the BBV issue after the 2000 election.

.....................Bush / Cheney.........Kerry / Edwards

Osceola ......... 43,108 ............... 38,617............... total voted pres.....81,725

voters reg 129,487 turnout 49.1%.....63,589.....18,156 more votes than turnout volusia had 209,052 turnout they had 226,863 voted for both rep dem president. The two county had 35,967 more votes than turnout

mean one of two things:

1) there is some unexplained but wholly credible reason (e.g., an un-updated ledger of total votes and a breakdown ledger that includes absentee ballots) for the discrepancy

or

2) Someone took advantage of the system to interpolate an additional 20,000 votes in Osceola county.

Until we rule out explanation #1, we can't for sure vote for explanation #2. But it sure looks like the kind of thing we should have an organized response to. Similar findings are posted all over this site -- we need a coordinated approach to this, people!

Is that a Liberal paper.

The numbers now match.

I for one am shocked...

This site still has the old numbers.

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/

Palm Beach
729,575 Reg
452,061 Turnout
62.0%

Now, one could claim, well, that doesn't include the absentee voters, but the absentee turnout was 141,633 and 452,061 + 141,633 does not = 547,340 claimed by this site as total turnout www.pbcelections.org/ElectionResults/2004/General/Gen04_dtl.htm

In order to make these numbers work, they had to reduce the number of people who showed up on election day by 50,000 and then add in the absentee ballots.

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND IT HAS MADAME BUTTERFLY WRITTEN ALL OVER IT!

like these rightwingers will listen, etc., but this is crap. Too many discrepencies. AND a revote on PAPER BALLOTS ONLY. F BBV MACHINES! F DIEBOLD!

Lu

kick dangit!!!

The morons running this county say the STUPIDEST THINGS:

"In fact, almost every Supervisor has received, particularly in a single race
ballot, blank absentee ballots."