Palm Beach, Florida precinct results

the link can be found on this page. The page with the results on it is in excel format so it takes a couple of minutes to load. There are apparently precincts with no votes at all and some with one or two. Maybe someone would like to look it over.
It's in the section called "Election Results"

<http://www.pbcelections.org/results.htm>

...is Theresa LaPore.

Here's the direct link to the spreadsheet:

http://www.pbcelections.org/ElectionResults/2004/General/GENERAL2004.xls

I used the sum function in Excel to come up with the following

Bush: 212578
Kerry: 328553

That was by adding the totals they show.
Looking at them it's pretty easy to see weird stuff.
It shows more people voted than were registered for all 3 categories.
The categories are Provisional, Absentee, and Voting Machine. The numbers don't add up unless I'm missing something.

Reg turnout total Bush Kerry
Provisional 0 983 1041 463 519
Absentee 0 91039 91802 37800 52792
Voting Machine 0 49635 49831 13904 35551

Bush: 52167
Kerry: 88862
I have to say I'm no expert at what exactly this shows and for those who cant see it, it lists 693 precincts and the results for each.

When I do a sum for the results of each precinct without the above categories I come up with this:
Bush: 160411
Kerry: 239691
with 729575 registered

When I include the categories I get this:
Bush: 212578
Kerry: 328553
with 729575 registered and 544378 voting

How do the 3 categories fit? What is Voting Machine if it's not already counted? How bad am I at math?

I'm sure somebody can pin this down better but it just doesn't add up.

I also suggest saving this spreadsheet... it may change!!

Added:
I'm editing this as I go back over it. Can somebody figure out the percentage differences of the 3 categories, just the precincts, and then the 3 categories and the precincts? Shouldn't these differences be at least close? It looks to me like the percentage difference is closer in the 3 categories where the numbers look weird. I really was never good at math.... seriously


more:
so what is the diff btw turnout and total?

I assume it's the early voting tally.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Here's the list of precincts with 0 returns:

1002
1003
1006
1019
1033
2004
2040
2049
4022
6066
6062
6182
6194
7004
7044
7162


The following precincts had only 1 vote each:


1144
1208
2079
7019

Are the # of registered voters for those precincts listed? (I don't have EXCEL on this computer) ta

the number of registered voters for those precincts. It's not like there were 500 people registered and nobody voted. The only thing that could come of this is if there are in fact more people registered in those precincts than are listed.

:kick: :kick:

. . .voters were included in your data.

Is there a column for US Senate and House in the EXCEL sheet? If so, are there any cast? (A drag not to have Excel on this computer - I may have to add it.) :-)

http://www.pbcelections.org/News/pct.htm

According to that report, these precincts with the zeros either don't exist or have any registered voters. There are some precincts with just one or two registered voters also.

I don't know why either. It might possibly be to create room for new regitered voters. I really speak with no knowledge, however.

In 2000 I did some work on the FL precincts, so I was asking about the Senate and House seats because of some possible flipping we "thought" might have been present in 2000.

If there are registered votes and no votes cast = red flag.

Pure and simple. They must have had classes for the nerds who did the hacking . . . whistleblowing would be nice now.

:kick:

If these are new precincts, and people showed up at their old precincts and were told they could not vote there, maybe they decided not to vote, maybe it was too much trouble, maybe they got discouraged.

It would also be interesting to know the demographics of these zero-count precincts as far as income level, education level, race, et cetera. We know that suppressing or skimming a few votes here and few votes there adds up to a lot of votes.

There might be nothing to it. But it makes me curious as to whether this zero-count precinct phenomenon occurred in all battleground states, especially Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Sorry about no Excel at the moment, but there are no precinct totals in html on the wesite after 2001 so I can't tell.

If you have Excel, you can check them in the "precinct totals" in Excel here to see when the precinct numbers changed to the straight numerical such as 1000 etc.
http://www.pbcelections.org/results.htm

The old precinct are like this at least through 2001:

0001
001A
001B