It would take only 5 PRECINCTS with the 32,767 rollover to reverse Florida

glugglug

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Thu Nov-11-04 06:34 PM
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It would take only 5 PRECINCTS with the 32,767 rollover to reverse Florida

Edited on Thu Nov-11-04 06:37 PM by glugglug

Who has Florida PRECINCT data for touchscreen counties?

The negative total in Franklin, OH in 2000 that someone posted about confirms my suspicion about the 32,000+ "counting backwards" bug.

IT IS NOT COUNTING BACKWARDS

After 32,767 votes in a precinct, when they try to store into a 16-bit signed value, it will roll over to -32768. This means 65,536 VOTES PER PRECINCT ARE LOST FOR EACH OCCURENCE OF THIS BUG.

All it takes is 5 PRECINCTS, not counties, for this bug to reverse the outcome.

Going on vacation Saturday - time to start packing -- someone definately needs to look at this.

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DoYouEverWonder

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Thu Nov-11-04 06:39 PM
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1. Link for list of links for the Supervisors of Elections in each county

http://www.ise.ufl.edu/iie/vote.htm

It's would be a matter of digging through each site. Only a few sites have posted results broken down by precincts.

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pmbryant

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Thu Nov-11-04 06:39 PM
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2. I doubt many precincts have anywhere close to that many voters

Edited on Thu Nov-11-04 06:39 PM by pmbryant

Don't precincts generally only have a few thousand voters?

:shrug:

--Peter

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glugglug

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Thu Nov-11-04 06:43 PM
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3. Apparently some have a lot more..

It reversed an amendment decision in Broward County, how do they know it didn't affect other races?

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pmbryant

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Thu Nov-11-04 06:48 PM
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4. Do they sum the totals at a county-wide office?

Don't all precincts send their machines, ballots, etc to be counted at a county-wide office, or am I mistaken?

Peter

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glugglug

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Thu Nov-11-04 06:53 PM
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5. I think they do

something else stinks....

I went and grabbed the broward stats from their site -- the most registered voters any precinct is listed as having is 3575, so how the heck did they hit 32k on the amendment votes... unless it really isn't a precinct level issue?

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