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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 10:25 PM
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Help! Are there any websites compiling voting data by county?
I want to do more graphs/analysis on various states, but would prefer to have data from shortly after the election, not the official data which includes absentees.

The reason is to look for trends in the initially tabulated totals.

I noticed a strong linear relationship for Florida in the Sequoia-machine counties in the initial data, but a week after the election, Palm Beach added many votes to the totals (absentees, I assume) which made the chart appear much less linear.

Are there any websites collecting interim voting data, or even any websites collecting the official data for all states?

(Sorry for posting this twice but maybe my charts put some people off.)

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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 10:33 PM
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1. No! No! They don't! I WANT to see those charts!....
Thankyou for posting - I would have missed this otherwise.

I've been compiling more analogous and plutonic data to develop a succinct and comprehensive (I know - oxymoronic, but ideal) picture of the fraud to show people.

I'll take ANYTHING.

I don't think I have screen shots of what you are looking for... But I know they're out there.

I'll see what I can get.

(In a shameless display of abject sloth).... can I see that chart?
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 10:42 PM
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3. If you google GEMS election results 2004
you'll find a lot of pages. I don't know if they're updated from earlier ones though. I have some counties I posted a week or so ago. Some from Florida.
If you do a search on du for GEMS you might find my posts.
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 10:52 PM
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4. Here are some.
Charts show vote gains for Bush vs. gains for Kerry/Gore. (Bubble size is proportional to total votes in each county.)

These are the only 4 counties in Florida that used Sequoia machines with WinEds 2.6.220 central tabulation. Notice how the yellow bubbles line up with a 10% offset from an 'even-growth' line.



This one shows that vote gains by Bush in centrally-tabulated Iowa counties was significantly higher than gains by the Democrats; while gains in the precinct-tabulated Iowa counties were evenly matched.




This one shows all Florida counties, by voting machine type. Hard to imagine that the Bush campaign (or maybe his awesome performance in the debates?) gave him net gains in almost all counties..rural, urban, large, or small..except Miami-Dade, which happened to have a unique software version.

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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 10:42 PM
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2. My first foray found a site I had already marked....
But I did not copy the data.

Have you seen this: http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~adamsb6/elections/index2.html

My apologies if my exuberance outstrips my review - I imagine you've seen this already.

I just saved it to Word should it 'disappear' (sad - I know, but I've seen it happen before...)
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lostnfound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 11:52 PM
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5. Thanks. That was useful.
Edited on Wed Dec-08-04 11:52 PM by lostnfound
I used the Ohio data to produce a chart also. (Just a spreadsheet graph, no Internet address for it, though, so I can't post it here.)
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skids Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 04:23 PM
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6. Use RASgroup http://rasgroup.com/

There isn't much there yet, but when I get around to it I'll be posting the rest of what I have at:

http://rasgroup.com/

Anyone can sign up, it just takes them a day or two to vet you.


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vireo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 05:56 PM
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7. You might try this site
http://www.polidata.us

I'm not sure when their data is from, but looking at Warren County, OH it appears to be prior to the adding of provisionals.

It is a useful site for comparing with previous year's results and in examining the OH data, I made the following observations:

Kerry underperformed Gore in 23 of the 88 counties and equalled his percentage in two. The underperform counties all went to Bush. In the counties where Kerry's percentage equalled Gore's, Bush won one (Union) and Kerry the other (Belmont).

The thing that struck me about Belmont was Bush's improvement over 2000, from 41.9% to 47%. The third party vote (presumably almost all Nader) was 5.1% in 2000. Even though we aren't dealing with the exact same voter population, one would reasonably expect Kerry to have captured the bulk of that Nader vote while holding on to the Gore voters.

Two counties flipped. Gore had won Clark, but Bush won it this year even though Kerry's percentage improved, from 48.6 to 48.8. Bush's percentage this year was 51.2 vs. 48.1 in 2000. The "other" (Nader) vote in 2000 was 3.3%.

Stark County was won by Kerry while having been lost by Gore. The vote breakdown there evolved more as expected, with Kerry being the beneficiary in the absence of a third party challenge.
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