Florida Counties Total Vote Increase vs Bush Vote Increase 04 vs 00

[lostnfound]

Looking at growth in total votes in 2004 by county, vs growth in Bush votes by county, I found that in almost all counties in Florida, Bush votes 'grew' much more than total votes 'grew'.

The worst case was Palm Beach, where an extra 21,299 votes (+5%) were totalled, and 21,387 extra went to Bush (+14%).

Palm Beach
2000 Total Votes 430,762
2004 Total Votes 452,061
2000 Bush Votes 152,846
2004 Bush Votes 174,233
% Increase Total Votes 5%
% Increase Bush Votes 14%
Vote Increase Total 21,299
Bush Increase 21,387
Bush Inc / Total Inc 100%
% Bush 2000 35%

In Pinellas, an extra 52,783 votes (+13%) were totalled, and 37,746 extra (+20%) went to Bush.

Pinellas
2000 Total Votes 396,092
2004 Total Votes 448,875
2000 Bush Votes 184,884
2004 Bush Votes 222,630
% Increase Total Votes 13%
% Increase Bush Votes 20%
Vote Increase Total 52,783
Bush Increase 37,746
Bush Inc / Total Inc 72%
% Bush 2000 47%

In Broward, total votes were up by 19%, Bush votes were up by 33%.

Broward
2000 Total Votes 571,685
2004 Total Votes 682,717
2000 Bush Votes 177,279
2004 Bush Votes 235,332
% Increase Total Votes 19%
% Increase Bush Votes 33%
Vote Increase Total 111,032
Bush Increase 58,053
Bush Inc / Total Inc 52%
% Bush 2000 31%

The exception
The only major county in which Bush votes climbed at a slower pace than total votes was Miami-Dade, where total votes were up by 13% and Bush votes were up by 11%.

Analysis at county level
All told, Bush got at least 20% more than "expected" of the new votes
in 52 counties, and got 20% less than "expected" in only 2 (tiny Highlands and Gadsden). (Ten more counties are less noteworthy, mostly skewed a bit for Bush, and the other is Miami-Dade, mentioned as the exception above).

To clarify, when I say "expected", I mean if the # of Bush votes had climbed at the same rate as total voters. (I.e., for Miami Dade, 11% Bush growth vs 13% total growth => 11/13 => 88% of "expected" growth or "12% less than expected"; or for Pinellas, 13% growth vs. 20% growth => 153% of "expected" growth or "53% more than expected")

Conclusions
So...What does this mean? Choose one:
1) the Bushies were MUCH better at getting their voters to the polls
or
2) electronic voting machine fraud
or
3) it's the net effect of their voter suppression efforts

Because all these new voters did Bush a whole lot more good than Kerry...66.4% of the "new votes" went to Bush.

I cannot detect any pattern with the voting machines (i.e., the 'fair' counties where growth was even included Diebold and optical and ES&S, as did the most distorted counties).

[Roland99]

1. Thanks for that...but...

very disheartening that 2-1 new voters favored Bush.


WTF is wrong with this country?? Bigots and Bible-thumpers are such gullible dumbfucks and they're going to lead us to an eventual civil war.


Mark my words.

[lostnfound]

4. No. That's my point. It's fraud.

I don't believe Bible-thumpers moved into every last county in Florida.

[UFL_LAW]

2. I am in Florida

I am in Florida and Democrats did a good job of recruiting people to the polls, I received 4 times as many phone calls from Dems, saw more Dem commercials, and bumper stickers were about even.

So I would go with some type of fraud. I saw one girl a minority get refused to vote, was not offered a provisional ballot.

So, I would answer 2 & 3.

[nolabels]

3. It's #2) electronic voting machine fraud

Very good post, thank you. I wish more people would WAKE UP to what is going on here.

There is no way voting totals go up and the Dems go down. The flip the vote process Bev was getting on with looks like a very good possibility.

I am layman with all this but things couldn't look more fishy. We will find out, too many have been predicting this would happen and now we see has.

[cthrumatrix]

6. I would concur the exit poll data points to major problems with florida &

ohio...all the others are "in-line" with the results....it's bushit

[DELUSIONAL]

5. Forward your numbers to the Kerry people

[Eye and Monkey]

7. up

ya go

[paritom]

8. Kick

Fla = total fraud