"Hacking the Vote in Miami County" by Dr. Phillips

Hacking the vote in Miami County
by Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D.
December 25, 2004

On Election Night, when 100% of the precincts in Miami County had reported, only 31,620 votes had been counted. George W. Bush was reported to have won Miami County with 20,807 votes (65.80%) to 10,724 votes (33.92%) for John F. Kerry. These numbers did seem low. In 2000 there had been 42,841 ballots cast. Bush had won Miami County with 26,037 votes (60.78%) to 15,584 votes (36.38%) for Al Gore.

Somehow the final total came in later that night at 50,235 votes cast, giving Bush a margin of 16,000 votes, exactly – 33,039 to 17,039. Moreover, as has been widely reported, even with the addition of 18,615 new votes, Bush's percentage was almost unchanged (65.80% to 65.77%), and Kerry's percentage was exactly the same (33.92%). This led some observers to believe that the optical scanner had been programmed to come out that way, to provide the desired 16,000-vote plurality.

Miami County is also noteworthy because of the increase in Bush’s point spread. Bush beat Gore by 60.78% to 36.38% in Miami County, a margin of 24.40%, for a plurality 10,453 votes. While Kerry did receive more votes than Gore, his percentage of the vote was much lower. This time, Bush was reported to have won Miami County by a margin of 31.85%. Coupled with an increase in turnout, then reported at 17.26%, Bush increased his margin from 10,453 votes to 16,000, winning 7,002 of 7,394 new voters.

Now the 1,609 provisional ballots have been examined, 1,542 of them have been counted, and the results have been certified. Bush now claims victory in Miami County with 34,005 votes (65.68%) to 17,611 votes (34.01%) for Kerry. Officially there were 51,777 votes counted for president, an increase of 20.86% over the 2000 presidential vote total.

This represents an astonishing increase in voter turnout. The population of Miami County is reported to have grown from 98,868 to 100,230 since the 2000 census, an increase of only 1.38%. The number of registered voters has risen from 66,765 in 2000 to 72,169 in 2004, an increase of 8.09%.

How did the Republicans do it? To answer this question I have compared, on a precinct by precinct basis, the presidential vote totals for 2004 with those of 2000. Since turnout was key to Bush’s impressive margin in Miami County, I have organized the data according to voter turnout.

First a disclaimer: When Diane Miley of the Miami County Board of Elections faxed me the election results, she made the following disclaimer on the cover sheet: “Please note that the 11/7/00 turnout report is not included. Our predecessors made a programming error which didn’t permit a complete report.”

Therefore, while I can calculate voter turnout for 2004 as total ballots cast divided by the number of registered voters, I cannot do the same for 2000. When comparing turnout in the two elections I can only compare the votes counted for president.

MIAMI COUNTY PRECINCTS WITH HIGHEST TURNOUT, 2004 ELECTION

Registered Votes Percent
Voters Cast Turnout Bush Kerry Bush Gore

CONCORD SOUTH WEST 689 679 98.55 520 157 378 132
CONCORD SOUTH 698 658 94.27 468 182 300 151
TIPP CITY F 622 550 88.42 360 184 249 166
TROY 3-G 848 732 86.32 496 231 184 96
TIPP CITY E 1195 979 81.92 754 221 581 205
TROY 4-F 604 490 81.13 395 94 122 42
MONROE EAST CENTRAL 935 757 80.96 508 247 426 275
TROY 2-D 650 524 80.62 306 216 306 288

PIQUA 5-B 1155 929 80.43 652 273 528 216
MONROE SOUTH EAST 1175 943 80.26 682 252 598 224
MONROE SOUTH 693 555 80.09 379 175 362 167

It is my professional opinion that these numbers are fraudulent, and that this election has been hacked. There simply was not a 98.55% turnout in Concord South West precinct or anywhere else in Ohio. Nor was there a 94.27% turnout in Concord South precinct. I do not believe that Bush won 111 of 129 new voters in Tipp City Precinct F, or 173 of 189 new voters in Tipp City Precinct E, or 273 of 325 new voters in Troy Precinct 4-F, or that voter turnout increased by 194.58% in Troy Precinct 4-F, or that voter turnout increased by 152.78% in Troy Precinct 3-G, or that Bush increased his margin by 110 votes among 54 new voters in Monroe East Central Precinct, or that 72 Democrats who voted in the 2000 election chose not to vote in 2004 in Troy Precinct 2-D while all the Republicans did. To further illustrate my point I have included the other three precincts with 80% turnout, all of which show modest increases for both candidates, as would be expected.

MIAMI COUNTY PRECINCTS WITH LOWEST TURNOUT

Registered Votes Percent
Voters Cast Turnout Bush Kerry Bush Gore

PIQUA 1-B/D 1095 545 49.77 270 270 164 220
PIQUA 3-A 1277 681 53.33 391 282 198 200
PIQUA 1-A 692 387 55.92 193 188 97 126
CONCORD SOUTH EAST 1199 678 56.55 502 171 572 206
TROY 4-A 796 477 59.92 278 194 202 164
TROY 4-B/D 881 520 59.02 256 258 178 211
PIQUA 5-A 757 456 60.24 231 220 175 192
TROY 4-E 711 429 60.34 217 203 148 195

It is my professional opinion that the reported results for the first four of these precincts are fraudulent also. I do not believe that (excluding third-party candidates in order to make my point clearly), John Kerry ran 7.3% behind Al Gore in Piqua Precinct 1-B/D, 8.35% behind Al Gore in Piqua Precinct 3-A, or 7.2% behind Al Gore in Piqua Precinct 1-A, nor do I believe the reported turnout of 49.77%, 53.33%, and 55.92% in a county said to have averaged 72.23% county wide, nor do I believe that turnout in these precincts, compared to the 2000 election, increased by 34.24%, 66.50%, and 63.25%, respectively, in a county that experienced only a 1.38% increase in population. Nor do I believe the reported turnout of 56.55% in Concord South East Precinct, which is no doubt contiguous to Concord South West and Concord South precincts, with their reported turnouts of 98.55% and 94.27%. I challenge the extremely high reported turnout in the Bush precincts and the very low reported turnout in the Kerry precinct. It is not my experience that Democrats don’t like to vote. I am skeptical of the results reported for the next four precincts also, where, in the aggregate, Bush gained 279 votes among 392 new voters, where Kerry ran behind Gore by 3.7%, 4.0%, 3.5%, and 8.5%, respectively.

OTHER MIAMI COUNTY PRECINCTS WITH LARGEST INCREASE IN TURNOUT

Vote Count Percent
2000 2004 Increase Bush Kerry Bush Gore

TROY 2-F 192 321 67.19 407 227 282 146
PIQUA 5-C 380 580 52.63 375 205 214 159
TROY 2-E 435 634 45.75 407 227 282 146
BETHEL SOUTH CENTRAL 708 999 41.10 666 327 412 274
TIPP CITY G 536 708 32.09 478 229 332 186
TROY 1-D 538 704 30.86 459 243 344 185
TROY 3-E 515 672 30.49 406 265 296 208
PIQUA 2-B/C 403 523 29.78 278 243 167 219
PIQUA 4-B/C 334 431 29.04 238 193 173 154
WEST MILTON C 557 718 28.90 465 248 351 193
PIQUA 1-C/E 367 472 28.61 261 210 150 197
CONCORD NORTH 283 363 28.27 239 121 197 79
NEWBERRY WEST 478 612 28.03 428 183 337 131
PIQUA 3-D/E 364 464 27.47 273 186 185 166

It is my professional opinion that the reported results for many of these precincts are fraudulent also. I do not believe that voter turnout increased by 67.19% in Troy Precinct 2-F, 52.63% in Piqua Precinct 5-C, 45.75% in Troy Precinct 2-E, and 41.10% in Bethel South Central Precinct, in a county with 1.38% population growth. Nor do I believe that Bush won 254 of 307 new voters in Bethel South Central Precinct, 146 of 189 new voters in Tipp City Precinct G, 111 of 135 new voters in Piqua Precinct 2-B/C, 111 of 124 new voters in Piqua Precinct 1-C/E, or 88 of 108 new voters in Piqua Precinct 3-D/E. The reported results for the other six precincts could well be true, but only if voter turnout really did increase by 28.03% to 30.86%.

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1038

I will schedule a tickle to do the same!!!

19,000 votes show up after the polls close.

Kerry Won Get Over it.

:kick:

"I do not believe" "Nor do I believe" "It is not my experience" -from a Ph.D.????

Optical Scan - count the votes - survey the rolls and do a scientific pole of those that voted.

He could have presented it in question form?

He is giving us a lead, a heads-up. It is quite clearly written

How should he have phrased it?

No matter what happens, this kind of information will go down in history. It will be part of the legacy.

scan ballots & then poles the registered voters that cast ballots, he can't say anything but "this appears to be an anomaly and needs to be investigated."

This is the one type of voting system that can be verified physically without having to interpret the "will of the voter" like punch cards or counting ether like touch screens - so lets put this to the real test.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0412/S00167.htm">Scoop.nz

That was stupid.

has a lot more people than this.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

and. . . Thanks. I will delete. :-)

you state in the second sentence:

"There simply was not a 98.55% turnout in Concord South West precinct or anywhere else in Ohio. "

Shouldn't that be "anywhere else in Florida?"

What was expected?

When reading these statistical analyses, it sometimes seems that a directive was passed to operatives saying that if you are in circumstance x, use this formula and example for your count manipulation under these parameters, but that the operative didn't know how to finesse it or even understand it, so followed the example.

It has always been my contention that every abortion hater and gun lover and blind fiscal follower who could vote in 2000, voted. I never believed that they could find any new voters except for a few who were blindly patriotic after 9-11 and those who blindly believed that Saddam was bin Laden and may have switched. I believed there were more people voting this time because of what they had learned about the injustice of the not-so-supreme court stealing the white house for bush and the cabal. I believed the numbers would tip against Bush because of the lies for the sake of killing and takeover.

So Bush wins 7000 of 7394 new voters?
So only 394 people were voting against Bush?
And 7000 people were newly coverted to fundamentalism or believed all the lies?

Pardon my anger and I know there are many more issues, but who are the people of Miami County OH?

Don't tell me that Democrats and Independents didn't register more than 394 new voters.

People were fired up and new Dems were registering to vote EVERYWHERE by the truckload. I'm sure somebody on this board could correct me if I'm wrong, but at one point prior to the registration deadline in OH, I'm pretty sure that I remember reading that Katherine Blackwell tried to cut-off voter registration early because they couldn't possibly process all the new registrations in time. AND THESE PEOPLE SUPPOSEDLY VOTED FOR *? Again....no effin' way.

Read all of Richard Phillips' reports at

http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/alpage.htm

Read and weep. Or rejoyce, as the case may be.