Florida's Election Results [Surprising Pattern that doesn't add up]

[AnIndependentTexan]

I'm reposting this from earlier

http://ustogether.org/Florida_Election.htm

Surprising Pattern of Florida's Election Results
Look at the Percent Change columns

Note: These numbers were calculated when the Florida vote was 98.6% in.

Explanation of What these numbers are, and how they were calculated:
PERCENT CHANGE for DEM, for example, = (Actual DEM Vote - Expected DEM Vote) / (Expected DEM Vote)

This is a simple percent change measure taught in highschool mathematics.

EXPECTED_VOTES REP, for example, was calculated by multiplying the percentage of registered REP times the total number of voters who voted in each county on Tuesday.

EXPECTED votes would normally vary from the ACTUAL votes due to increased voter turnout or other factors. What seems very odd in these numbers is that the increase in ACTUAL votes over EXPECTED votes for REPs has a striking pattern of being so much higher than that for DEMs in counties using optical scan voting machines.

SOURCES:
http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/ for registered voters by county and election results by county
http://vevo.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/ for voting machine type by county

[shelley806]

1. Let me try and understand this....

In my way of thinking, (the actual) minus the (expected votes) divided by the (expected votes) would equal parity or negative if the expected is optimistic. What you are saying is that in a deomocratic county, the rep exceeded the dems, and the dems were actually registered as negative? With high voter turnout this is very suspicious. Explain simplistically please.