So how did Lee County FL lose 743 votes

[DoYouEverWonder]

In FL the counties post their preliminary totals and these were posted on the States website on Nov 3rd.

Then the day after the election, the SOE's take the precinct tapes, compares them to the copies they received the night of the election and then they send their 1st SET OF UNOFFICIAL RESULTS to the DOE in Tallahassee.

In the meantime, the overseas ballots still have 10 days to arrive and the provisional ballots have to be certified. As expected, in most counties the final totals were adjusted upward.

However, in Lee county we have managed to lose 743 votes! How could that happen? Lee County is the only county in FL to lose such a significant amount of votes during the vote counting period.

Didn't they receive any ballots from overseas after the election? Didn't they have any provisional ballots? Has anyone from Lee County even addressed this problem? Inquiring minds would like to know.


UNOFFICIAL ELECTION NIGHT RETURNS - Posted Nov 3rd

Lee County
Percent reported 87.60%

Bush / 114,153
Kerry / 76,874
Total / 191,027


1st SET OF UNOFFICIAL RETURNS - Downloaded on Nov 10th

Percent reported 100.00%

Bush / 144,414
Kerry / 94,365
Total / 238,779


Final Official Results - Posted 11/14/04

Percent reported 100.00%

Bush / 144,176
Kerry / 93,860
Total / 238,036


Bush / -238
Kerry / -505
Total / -743

[sabra]

1. Did you save the earlier versions somewhere?

Maybe put them up on a site?

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Yes, I have hard copies

and I've posted them up on Photobucket.

[sabra]

4. Excellent. Send to Keith Olberman and Congressman Nadler n/t

[electropop]

2. Nice work this should be publicized n/t