What website would have a complete breakdown of voting machines in Ohio?

[Darkhawk32]

By county and by precinct and their voting pattern was?

to be clear: I need how many machines were available per registered voters, etc.

[KaliTracy]

1. I'mm not sure it's on a website -- I've asked BOEs for this information

(or where to get it). If you find out PLEASE share! I happened to get involved in the politics of this election because of the huge unequal way machines were distributed. (my area alone (in a 1 to 2 mile strip) had about 23 machines, and the rest of West Chester had bunches more). At first, I was only concerned with machine misallocation -- but now see that it goes much, much deeper than that.

one way to do it is to go to each District site and get a breakdown of precincts there -- not sure if they give amount of people per precinct or not.


This site has some good information: http://www.jqjacobs.net/bush/xls/ohio.html depending on what you are looking for.

Another thing I am interested in is Amount of People who voted per machine.

If I didn't need my day job, I would be doing some investigating on this matter. In 1998 Balckwell was made Secretary of State. In 1999 (prior to the 2000 elections) over 900 precincts were lost. This year prior to the election over 700 were lost -- yet from 2000 to 2004 we gained over 800,000 new registered voters. I think -- for I have nothing to back this up -- that the reason the 2000 had such "low" voter turnout (63% when since 1980 it averaged over 70%) is that there was disenfranchisement on a large scale that year, but people may have just walked away (more people walked away) when they saw the lines, and that it got overshadowed by what happened in Florida.

I have the breakout of those numbers from the State Site if you want them.

Good luck, and please keep us informed!

[dzika]

2. A few sites

Bob Fitrakis wrote a column that is a good starting place

"Document reveals Columbus, Ohio voters waited hours as election officials held back machines"
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/990


Here is a fax from Ohio SOS Office from 12-30 detailing the breakdown by county (PDF)
http://miamedia.com/news/2004-12-30.ohio.vote.machine.distribution.pdf


You might find some more document by searching here.

[luaptifer]

3. Richard Phillips, some association with Fritakis

seems to have done a lot with voters/machine. i'm looking into this issue myself as it relates to Blackwell's duties and responsibilities as SOS for Ohio's electorate.

Phillips pieces, lots of stats:
http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/alpage.htm

[Lisabtrucking]

4. Try this one.

http://shadowbox.i8.com/

[Zan_of_Texas]

5. Here are a couple

that identify the type of equipment by county.

http://www.geocities.com/boycott_sinclair/Ohio-datasheets.htm
– also shows primary election totals for R and D, general election totals for B and K

Go to Feminist Majority for much the same thing: http://www.feminist.org/pdfs/OH_election_certification.pdf