Cuyahoga county

[shraby]

Were the previous totals we had for the county the votes counted and allocated to the candidates? If so, how can they add the absentee ballots to the totals if they aren't going to be counted for a few days yet?

[Lil]

1. good question!!

[Lilli]

2. was it absentee or provisionals they count at 11 days?

I wondered the same thing earlier

[shraby]

3. Seems like it was both were going to be

counted at the same time..on the 11th or 13th..can't remember which. Maybe someone else can clarify this.

[jhgatiss]

4. Possible explanation

I'll conjecture on this.... From what I've read the provisionals and OVERSEAS absentee ballots have yet to be counted, so its entirely possible that these strange numbers are due to inclusion of domestic absentee ballots in the totals.

[TorchTheWitch]

5. Doesn't make sense

As Skinner said in another thread... "If these are absentee ballots, why would they push the total number of votes over the number of registered voters?"

My response to that question is:

Forget all the double-speak... disbursement of absentee votes, blah, blah, blah...

You have to be a registered voter to even get an absentee ballot. If you vote by absentee ballot, you can't vote at the precinct on election day because you already voted by absentee ballot. Therefore, the adding of absentee ballots or where they added them, etc. doesn't mean squat. The fact remains that there are still all these EXTRA votes... MORE votes then there are REGISTERED voters.

To claim that the extra votes are absentee votes would be admission that they didn't do a blessed thing to ensure that absentee voters didn't ALSO vote at the poll on election day, i.e., they'd be admitting that they let all these people vote twice.

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Now, to add a little more to that... considering how many provisional ballots there were, they were being extremely careful about the voting procedure. It's outrageous to assume that they were being so careful when allowing someone to vote even ONCE while also being extremely incompetent about allowing someone to vote MORE THAN ONCE.

If they're trying to claim these EXTRA votes are absentee votes, then they are admitting GROSS INCOMPETENCE.

The whole reason we have all this registration and paperwork and double checking is to make sure that only those people who are permitted to vote by law are allowed to cast a ballot AND that none of those people are voting MORE THAN ONCE.

[lebkuchen]

6. It's odd that w/all the ballots thrown out in places like Florida

because "voters didn't follow directions," that OH would end up with more "voters following directions" than they can handle.

How many registered voters are there in the entire state of OH and how many ballots did they receive?

I still don't understand how the stateside absentee ballots were distributed among the precincts. Why wouldn't the precinct where that voter would have voted in person receive the vote tally?

How is it that Woodmere Village, with 558 registered voters, can end up with 8,854 ballots cast, representing a 1586.7% voter turnout?