Sarasota County has a history of skipping High Profile Races?? WTF

[FARAFIELD]

I was just reading an article about Chistine Jennings in Florida (a quote from the article is below), and it had this bizzare statement about people skipping high Proflie races. Since I'm not one to take an election officials word for it (or a republican for that matter) can anyone from florida or that has researched this clue me in? 18,000 people didnt vote for congresscritter?? FOr that statement to be there would have to have been previous elections with similar results and I just dont buy it. If there is a history of that in that country does anyone have any proof. I find that extremely difficult to swallow. But Im looking for someone. Also I dont feel this is a dupe because Im asking about the statement made about the "history of skipping high profile races"


"Democrats claim that the electronic machines failed to properly record the votes, while Republicans say that Sarasota County has a history of skipping high profile races."

[bullimiami]

1. and someone has proof of this history and some way to show how it isnt

symptomatic of past corruption as well?

i dont think so. its just lip flap to muddy the issue.

[Cocoa]

2. totally absurd

if there is evidence to be found for this bizarre phenomenon, it should have been provided in the article you read. Is that article online?

[Mist]

3. From what I know of this story, it seems about 18K-20K ballots had

votes for county positions, but not, somehow, for the top of the ballot, the representatives. The "skipping high profile races" doesn't make any sense in that context--as Randi Rhodes mentioned on her show last week, why would all those people show up to vote for local positions, and somehow "forget" to vote for their representative? I hope Jennings pushes this hard, as there's obviously something going on with the voting machines, and it is, after all, Florida!

[RB TexLa]

4. It happens

In 1996, there were many places in Louisiana where people voted in the Landrieu/Jenkins senate race and didn't vote in the Presidential race, and the reverse. We had returns coming in from one parish where they went 52% for Landrieu and 56% for Clinton, people were asking how did 4% of the people vote for Bill Clinton and then vote for Woody Jenkins, the fact was they didn't, it was different people making up the two different races.