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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Florida problems?
The question of the difference between exit polls, voting results, and how new voting technologies may have influenced them, remains a topic of discussion in many areas. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is discussing it, here in a transcript of his 'Countdown' program, and in his blog. Examples quoted by an interviewee:
Baker County, Florida, on the Georgia border for instance. 69 percent of voter registered Democrats. 24 percent Republicans. Yet President Bush got 7,738. And Senator Kerry, just 2,180. In Holmes County, in the panhandle, seven Democrats for every two Republicans in the district. Bush beat Kerry 6,410 to 1,810. In Dixie County, 77.5 percent registered Democrats, Bush 4,433, Kerry 1,959. Lafayette County, 83 percent Democratic, Bush, 2,460. Kerry, 845. In Liberty County, Bristol, Florida, 88 percent of registered voters there are Democrat. 8 percent Republican. Bush, 1,927. Kerry, 1,070. (Added later:) Here's a discussion of the voting in Florida from two professors from Cornell and Stanford, which, they say, proves that the vote results seem to be normal based on previous voting patterns. Hard to imagine that a 60-to-70 percent change in some counties can be explainable, but..... Also, here's an article in the Boston Globe that discusses all the internet chatter about possible vote fraud/errors and dismisses most of it. posted by liz at 10:08 AM 
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