What's in a machine???? (Here's an email I received)
Please look at the FL county percent change numbers below.
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> I am a math type and I found some very surprising results in Florida
> counties by doing some fairly simple examination of Florida's county
> results by voting machine types - not AT ALL what I expected to find,
> in fact just the opposite!
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> Is it possible to rig op-scan voting systems? Or is there another
> plausible explanation?
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> Source for this info is
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http://vevo.verifiedvoting.org/veri...string=5std&sta
> te=Florida
> and
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http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/
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> I calculated "percent change" comparisons of election results by
> county with voter party registration by county, so I compared voter
> party registration rates in each county with election results by party
> in each county in Florida, and look (below) what I found!!
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> I calced "differences" between expected votes based on voter
> registration for dems and repubs in each Florida county times the
> actual total vote counts, divided by "expected" results based on voter
> registration proportion times actual vote counts in each county.
>
> There is a striking difference in patterns with a HUGE percent change
> that Republicans picked up in op-scan counties that is amazingly
> larger than in DRE counties.
>
> Even given possible demographic differences, I would never have
> expected such a huge difference in percent change based on voting
> machine type.
>
> Please take a look. It might be interesting to determine why the
> pattern in Florida's op-scan counties are so amazingly different than
> one would normally expect to find.
>
> COUNTIES USING DRE ES&S TOUCHSCREEN:
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> County REP DEM
> Broward 29% 27%
> Charlotte 24% 35%
> Collier 22% 40%
> Hillsborough 51% 11%
> Indian River 17% 30%
> Lake 27% 14%
> Lee 24% 34%
> Martin 9% 51%
> Miami-Dade 32% 25%
> Nassau 48% -29%
> Palm Beach 20% 35%
> Pasco 35% 19%
> Pinellas 27% 31%
> Sarasota 12% 45%
> Sumter 43% -11%
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> COUNTIES USING PRECINCT OP-SCAN SYSTEMS:
> REP DEM
> Alachua 259% -15%
> Baker 312% 12%
> Bay 126% 82%
> Bradford 253% 13%
> Brevard 123% 58%
> Calhoun 741% -23%
> Citrus 141% 46%
> Clay 77% 197%
> Columbia 219% 19%
> DeSoto 293% -2%
> Dixie 565% -11%
> Duval 171% 25%
> Escambia 128% 60%
> Flagler 145% 34%
> Franklin 529% -24%
> Gadsden 793% -64%
> Gilchrist 229% 20%
> Glades 303% -11%
> Gulf 276% -2%
> Hamilton 571% -30%
> Hardee 274% 9%
> Hendry 225% 4%
> Hernando 142% 36%
> Highlands 125% 53%
> Holmes 369% 6%
> Jackson 355% -14%
> Jefferson 382% -39%
> Lafayette 656% -11%
> Leon 276% -35%
> Levy 262% 5%
> Liberty 1173% -28%
> Madison 571% -36%
> Manatee 126% 71%
> Marion 132% 47%
> Monroe 159% 36%
> Okaloosa 75% 214%
> Okeechobee 236% -2%
> Orange 185% 24%
> Osceola 205% 29%
> Polk 157% 38%
> Putnam 256% 2%
> Santa Rosa 79% 175%
> Seminole 124% 80%
> St. Johns 88% 105%
> St. Lucie 174% 40%
> Suwannee 273% 11%
> Taylor 429% -16%
> Union 447% -4%
> Volusia 178% 18%
> Wakulla 313% -14%
> Walton 100% 99%
> Washington 293% 6%
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> Do you know how I can obtain a breakdown of votes in Florida by county
> by: 1. cast precinct
> 2. cast paper mailin
> 3. cast early - machine and paper
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> so that I may see if there are other interesting results that would
> correlate or reinforce these numbers or not?
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> By county exit polling data would be very helpful to compare with
> results by voting machine system type also.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kathy