How is this possible? More votes than people.

[LDS Jock]

Just by chance I came across this info from the 2000 election.

Loving County Texas population 67

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=01000US&_geoContext=&_street=&_county=loving&_cityTown=&_state=04000US48&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on

Voting results from 2000

Gore 29

bush 124

buchanan 1

brown (who?) 1

for a total of 155

http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/cbc/txcbc.htm

How does this happen? Absentee ballots? But then, two and half times as many votes as people, not just registered voters. Doesn't seem possible.

[Cleita]

1. Just for a minute, believe it was an honest election.

Often population stats aren't that accurate and aren't updated that frequently. On the other hand, if the population count is accurate, it seems they have some explaining to to.

[louis-t]

2. It ain't possible.

This is far more prevalent than pollsters want to admit. I understand this happened in several areas of Florida too.

[Worst Username Ever]

3. Well 2000 was the year of the census

and the population numbers you cite were probably from the 1990 census.

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. Ummm take a look at this...

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48301.html

[LDS Jock]

5. the population numbers are from the census.gov site for 2000

107 people there in 1990, which is still too few

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. Texas SOS office re voter registrations

http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/loving.shtml

[loudestchick]

7. Ohhh Lucy!

They got some 'splainin' to do!

[newyawker99]

18. Hi loudestchick!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[uncle ray]

8. whoah, that creates more questions than in answers!

look at the high % of early votes cast at the same time the number of registered voters goes up, strange.

[LDS Jock]

9. where are they getting these voters?

The county is losing people, according to the census.gov site. But yet on the site you provided, the number of registered voters keeps going up, and is well beyond the total population.

[Booster]

11. More of that "fuzzy" math.

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Did they use electronic voting machines?

Do you know? If so, that's how. They hacked them and changed the vote tally.

[Andy_Stephenson]

12. Called the county Clerk's office

They are using hand counted paper ballots.

[LDS Jock]

17. Did they say how many times they were counting them?

or how there were more votes than people?

[Andy_Stephenson]

22. No but...

I only asked what voting system was used there.

[Ready4Change]

13. Hmmm, twice the counties population voted for Bush.

Does that repeat in any other counties?

[LDS Jock]

14. I haven't seen it, not yet anyway

I've been looking around at the infomation, sometimes I think its more votes than there should be, with almost everyone voting, which doesn't allow for children, but so far none with more votes than people.

[LDS Jock]

15. this is odd too... almost as many

Roberts County 887 people with 831 registered voters

[KlatooBNikto]

16. Vote early and vote often.

[shraby]

20. There are 22 people with disabilities there too.

Out of 67 people 22 have disabilities??? What gives?

<http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48301.html>

[texastoast]

19. That is not possible

Loving County has always been famous for not having a 100 people in the whole county. Someone needs to talk to the county clerk and pull the records.

[shraby]

21. Send it to John Kerry

that county needs watched.