http://www.passinglane.com/elections/Originally published 11/10/04 :: Last updated 11/12/04
Recently I've started paying more attention to the mounting discourse on the internet and in some media outlets about recent election irregularities.
While mainstream media has been showing lots of coverage of democrats beating themselves up over what they could have done differently and their underestimation of the sheer number of passionate and mobile conservatives, very few have been covering the increasing accounts of election tally irregularities. It seems that each day the election passes there are more legitimate questions being asked, and circumstantial evidence revealed, that raises serious question of whether this election was called accurately at all.
In Florida there are 29 counties out of 67 (over 43% of the counties in the state) that have a direct inverse relationship between the percentage of people registered to a party and the percentage of votes received by that party. Examples: Hardy County registrations are 5:2 democratic, results are nearly 2:5 republican; Washington County registrations are 3:1 democratic, results are nearly 3:1 republican; Suwannee County registrations are a bit over 2:1 democratic, results are a bit over 2:1 republican; Bradford County registrations are a bit over 2:1 democratic, results are a bit over 2:1 republican; Holmes County registrations are 4:1 democratic, results are 3:1 republican.
The larger the disparity in registrant affiliation, the larger the reverse disparity of the results. I can't see how anyone can claim that this is due to disproportionately huge voting shifts in the most democratic counties. That would mean, in a county like Lafayette (with only 570 registered republicans) every registered republican voted; every undeclared voter voted republican (169); and of the 3,570 registered democrats, 1,004 did not vote; and of those who did, registered democrats voted republican by more than 2 to 1 (1,721 to 845).
Increasingly, my theory is that counts were reversed in the less populated, heavily democratic Florida counties. These counties all used Optical Scanning machines to read paper ballots. If the wrong candidate was associated with the wrong hole in the punch card (Kerry and Bush were reversed) we would see results exactly consistent with what we received.
Furthermore, If we look at just the Touch-Screen machines in Florida, 8 out of 15 counties using these machines showed more voters moving toward Kerry and away from Bush as compared to the ratios of registered democrats and republicans. As a mater of fact, in each of these 8 counties Kerry/Edwards votes exceeded the number of registered democratic voters, while the number of republican votes were less than the total number of registered republicans in those counties.
I based my comparisons on a table originally constructed and published by Kathy Dopp at:
http://ustogether.org/election04/FloridaDataStats.htm (listed on the legend page as a data source). I used the State of Florida's election website at:
http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/ to spot check the accuracy of Kathy Dopp's table. In my analysis I modeled reversing the vote tallies in the 29 counties that had the largest inverse relationship between election results and the party affiliation of voters.
On the following pages (links above) Florida election results are compared, county by county, with voter party affiliation. It appears there is very clear evidence of serious fraud, or at the very least, coincidental errors beyond anyone's imagination. I have attempted to lay this information out as clearly as possible. Please take a look and decide for yourself.
Additional Links of Interest:
Subsequent to my publishing these pages I discovered another great analysis by Kathy Dopp titled, "Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results". This page further breaks down the vendor of voting machines in each county (I did not see any correlation between manufacturers of optical scanning machines and voting disparity). This page also provides great off-site links, including a document by Steven F. Freeman, PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, entitled "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy" that examines the issues surrounding the surprising discrepancies between election results and exit polls.
To respond to the contents of this site, or share your own evidence of election irregularity or fraud, please email: electionmess@yahoo.com