Letter to the Media requesting Fla. vote Fraud Investigation

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://el-in-new-york.forclark.com/story/2004/11/6/202336/932

Please feel free to copy and use this. It's critical that the media investigates!



Dear __________,


I came across a website that compiled the results of elections in Florida for eight of its counties. The total number of registered voters in the counties are listed for both Republican and Democrats. Each of these counties have a wide majority of registered Democrats. On the night of Nov. 2nd, totals showed that Bush won by wide margins, almost to the opposite of the percentage of registered Democrats to Republicans.

Here's the link to the page:

http://www.rubberbug.com/temp/Florida2004chart.htm

To try to verify this information for myself, I picked one county to examine. I went to the official website of Baker County, which showed that Bush won with 77.7 % of the vote, even though actual registration in the county is 68% Dem., 28 % Rep., 10 % other.

Baker County website:

http://bakercountyfl.org/elections/precincts.htm

Then I found their Supervisor of Elections page which reported the exact
number of registered voters in its 9 precincts. The official county
total is : 8,877 Democrat; 3,004 Republican and 798 other.

Here's their Registrations page:


http://bakercountyfl.org/elections/short.html

CNN.com reports that in Baker county Bush received 7,738 votes, Kerry recieved 2,180 and 550 votes were divided among the other candidates. A 75% turnout, and what appears to be a Bush landslide.

For Bush to have truly won that county, he would have had to have every
registered Republican (3,004) turn out and vote for him and then he would still be 4,700 hundred votes short. meaning that roughly 75 percent of the remaining registered Democrats would have had to vote for him. It appears that something is truly wrong here. Polls around the country taken before and upon exit revealed that 89% of registered Democrats voted for John Kerry. It appears that large numbers of Floridian voters may have been disenfranchised.

Because any other rationale seems an impossibility (Kerry was tied in Florida to begin with in polls for several weeks, often trading narrow leads with Bush), these numbers may have been reversed between the candidates either by hand or with electronic voter machine tampering, as in the other seven counties listed on the first link.

After examining this information, I question if Kerry really did lose Florida. I am asking you to investigate this matter more closely. Please send a journalists on your staff to interview registered Democratic voters in these counties in order to investigate if they voted by large margins against John Kerry, and if so to determine why. If they did not vote as results show, please investigate this matter thoroughly and report on it, as it is of critical importance. Thank you.

Yours truly,

[alevensalor]

1. Blasted to NH, MA, NY

:kick:

[splat]

2. Registration doesn't predict behavior. It's not evidence

[JohnnyCougar]

4. Right!

The analysis abot the difference b/t optical scan and E-voting is more convincing. Someone made a graph...I'll try to find it.

Edit: This graph is more convincing.

[Expat_Kristen]

3. Just sent off two letters

One to the Florida Today, my local newspaper in Melbourne, FL, and one to the Baker County Standard - apparently the community paper for the county in question.

[JohnnyCougar]

5. I really think this is the wrong avenue to pursue

The past has shown that these counties, although registered Dems, have voted Republican by larger margins. Compare these results to the 2000 elections first.

The difference between the op-scan and e-voting machines is more convincing.

[peacetalksforall]

7. My God - how do you compare FL votes to 2000?

[Laelth]

6. Those counties are in the panhandle.

Not good evidence, but it's on the right track. Better to complain about counties with large populations (and ones that aren't traditionally conservative).

Go HERE and look at the data for the big counties that used optical scan machines (Duval, Orange, Polk, Okaloosa, Marion, and others). Those eight smaller counties in the North have been voting Republican for many years (many of the residents just haven't changed their official registration identities). The I-4 corridor counties and Duval (Jacksonville), on the other hand, are showing some very strange numbers. If you want to write a letter, complain about the big counties.

just my 2 cents ...

-Laelth