Another way to look at the Florida election results:

[Election Mess]

Finally it looks like I've posted to the DU site enough times so that I have gained the privilege of starting threads, so here goes.

I'd like to focus on the unexplained voting disparities in a large number of Florida’s counties. By these disparities I'm referring to counties that have a large majority of registered Democrats but ended up voting largely Republican.

Now I've heard plenty of theories about Dixiecrats. How for years voters, originally registered as democrats, have been voting republican, never revising their party affiliations or re-registering. That's all very well and fine but I do not believe it accounts for the occurrence of this large a percentage of counties showing a direct inverse relationship between registered party affiliation and the votes counted for the candidates. I'd like to point out the consistency with which this holds true and offer another, more plausible, explanation other than the vague Dixiecrat theory so often used to explain away this phenomenon.

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.

Surprisingly, the larger the disparity in registered voter affiliation, the larger the disparity of the results in the other direction. 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 the reported vote totals.

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 fell short of registered republicans in those counties.

You can view my comparisons of the Florida election results at: http://www.passinglane.com/elections/
I have compared Florida election results, county by county, against each county's registered voters' 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 let me know what you think.

You can reach me by email at: [e-mail]

[Brundle_Fly]

1. more food for thought....

interesting, thank you :)

and welcome!

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Keep in mind that the only counties in FL

that got the touch screen systems are in the more liberal, southern counties. Just about everyone from Orlando north, votes on optical scanners.

Hint: the answers that you seek are in the Absentee ballots. That's where the the REP did their ballot box stuffing.