Kaptur Defeats Kucinich 94% to 4% on 100% Unverifiable E-Vote Systems in Toledo, OH?

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129. Would we be having this debate if the vote in Lucas County was 75/25 for Kaptur?

I doubt it. But the fact is that a vote of 75/25 in Lucas County would be far more suspect than a 96/4 vote. As previously noted, when DK ran for president, he performed horribly in Lucas County, getting less than 3 percent of the vote.

Meanwhile, over the past 10 years, Kucinich has faced one or more primary opponents in his district 3 times and has averaged around 70 percent of the vote in those races (from a high of 86 percent to a low of 50 percent). That's pretty consistent with the Cuyahoga County results favoring him over Kaptur by around 73/24. On the other hand, Kaptur has only faced a primary opponent once (in 2010) and she corralled a bit over 90 percent of the vote in Lucas County. Given that her challenger ran against her from the right (as an unabashed opponent of health care reform) when she ran against someone to the left of her (Kucinich) she did even better in Lucas.

Thus, while we should be concerned about unverifiable voting result, this probably isn't the best case to cite in arguing that there is something fishy. And had the votes come out 75/25, I have a feeling no one would be thinking that was fishy (even though it probably would have been).