Strange numbers in Franklin County, Ohio [View All]

[shirlden]

Keep in mind that all day there were long lines at most polling places. Some until way after the time for polls to close. I have never had to wait in line in my 30 years of voting in Ohio, but yesterday I had an hour and a half wait. However,..official figures from the SOS web site says that in 2000 Franklin had a turn out of 61.3%. In 2004 we had 60.95% IMPOSSIBLE !

2000
Registered voters 681,949 Voted 417,800 760 Precincts

2004
Registered voters 845720 Voted 515,472 788 Precincts

My math is not good, but I figure that it works out to an increase of 7 extra voters an hour per precinct. This would cause waits of hours?? I think not !!