Weird Florida Voter Turnout - More Than 100%
Whaddya know...Wendy McElroy concedes that there may be "an easy and innocent explanation" for this, but one Florida precinct, D001, is showing a voter turnout of, right now, 110%. Yes, 930 voters cast 1028 ballots, for a 110.54% turnout.
If it were a hacker they would have done a better job with this...in reality they're system probably sucks, anyone out there remember chads!?
Sooooo....maybe certain people didn't get 50% of the vote!
Tina at January 30, 2008 6:18 PM
I dont know why anyone would be suprised by this remeber all the voter problems in the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 elections?
lujlp at January 30, 2008 7:14 PM
Can we kick Florida out of the country yet? I mean, we could give these dumb fucks a ballot with one box on it, and they'd fuck it up.
brian at January 30, 2008 7:37 PM
Shit! Have 3 years really gone by?
eric at January 30, 2008 8:32 PM
Maybe there are a whole lot of absentee ballots cast by people voting outside their district?
Although, speaking of voting, have y'all heard the arguments going on in some states that requiring valid state id to vote is unnecessary hardship?
liz at January 30, 2008 9:33 PM
The ID voting requirement is currently in front of the Supreme Court, I haven't heard a decision on it yet. I think it was Indiana or Illinois that passed the law and of course it's being challenged.
I believe our voting system has gotten totally out of control and the democrats always oppose reforming it becuase they have a long history of cheating. I know some republicans have done it to but it is an institution in the democrat party. Remember Mayor Daley asking, "how many votes do we need" to get Kennedy elected. Or how about the stolen election that got Christine Gregorie elected in Washington where they just kept counting and 'finding' more ballots? Or how bout the woman eating chads in florida. Every time the congress tries to pass some kind of voter ID law or start some real reform, the dems shut it down. If we can have ATM's that dispense money, we can damn sure have a real solid voter ID card and a tamper proof system. The whole motor voter bill was designed to get everybody, even illegals, to vote because they register you right there when you get your license. Clinton did that one and he knew damned well what he was doing.
Bikerken at January 30, 2008 10:11 PM
Gee, I wonder if this is a big democrat district???
I also wonder if this is how McCain won, when actual conservatives despise him???
Smarty at January 31, 2008 3:54 AM
I don't pretend to know how the Supreme Court will decide but I don't get what's wrong with asking for proof of citizenship. Christ, we have to provide it to work -- well, above the table anyway.
Donna at January 31, 2008 5:29 AM
I see dead people.
Snoop-Diggity-DANG-Dawg at January 31, 2008 6:47 AM
That's Florida for you, just ask Al Gore. I feel a hanging chad coming on.
Roger at January 31, 2008 7:26 AM
Donna, you are so wright. Nothing is wrong with asking for ID --- except that many Democratic Party voter groups, Blacks and Latinos most especially, would be unable to cheat at election time.
Jeff at January 31, 2008 8:49 AM
Dammit Florida! Do we have to revoke your right to vote?
Elle at January 31, 2008 8:53 AM
Jeff, please direct me to documented proof of Democratic OR Republican Party voter groups, in, say, the last twenty years, committing election fraud at the polls. I have looked and I can't find any of substance.
The main problem with the voter ID laws, as I understand them, is that many people believe that they amount to a poll tax. On January 23, 1964, the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
Even if a person does not have to directly pay a government entity to get an ID card, that person will have to pay in other ways such as transportation costs to obtain the card, and charges to agencies to obtain acceptable copies of records such as birth certificates or other documentation needed to get an ID card. Advocates for the poor, elderly, and/or homeless argue that such associated costs amount to a de facto poll tax.
There are plenty of people who do not drive, fly, cash checks, or other things for which the vast majority of Americans must have a driver's license. They do not have notarized copies of identity documents, nor a clear idea of where to get such things. Yet many of them have voted for years, and they do not want to suddenly be denied that right because they can't manage to get to the ID office or have the money to get the paperwork, if they even could get the paperwork. It is on behalf of these American citizens that some people argue against the Voter ID laws that have been proposed and passed in the last few years.
adoringfan at January 31, 2008 10:23 AM
[i]Can we kick Florida out of the country yet?[/i]
Which part of Florida?
I lived in Florida for a while. Florida is actually three distinct "states."
North Florida (Pensacola to Jacksonville) is pretty blue-collar, good-ole-boy redneck. These are flag-waving, truck-driving, hard-working folks.
South Florida (Miami) is Caribbean hot spot. Like the Caribbean, it's a pretty live and let live type place - as long as you stay in the built-up areas and don't get too curious about why everyone has the sniffles.
Central Florida (St. Pete to Palm Beach) is mostly tourist/retiree. In terms of brains per square mile, this area is dumber than Southern California.
Every once in a while those balmy tropical breezes get a running start from the West Indies and clean the place out.
[i]Homer Simpson: Florida! That's America's wang![/i]
Conan the Grammarian at January 31, 2008 10:36 AM
So is this a democrat run county?
How far did it swing for McCain?
Smarty at January 31, 2008 5:41 PM
Hmm. Tell me again about that part where it was too complicated for these people to punch a hole in a card with a stick, and so the "solution" would be computers...
Radwaste at January 31, 2008 7:15 PM
adoringfan, that's ridiculous. I'm 50 years old, don't drive and never have. It's fucking easy to get a nondriver ID, if you're legit anyway. Do these people ever leave their house? You have to get ID to work, as I said, unless you're fucking illegal in which case, you've got no fucking right to vote. Only citizens should have the right to vote. Geeze. Living costs money, some minimal amount. In this day and age to ask to never have to show ID anywhere is absurd and since, if you're living any sort of legitimate life, it's rather a necessity anyway, there's no way in hell, it really washes to say you need one to vote, it's a poll tax. It's the same old bullshit. The illegals are fighting it so they can vote and continue to abuse our freedoms.
Donna at February 1, 2008 5:28 AM
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