106% voter turnout in Wyoming

[yurbud]

This is one way to jack up the popular vote.

Somebody put this on their blog, and I didn't believe it until I looked it up.

You can see for yourself on the Wyoming Secretary of State's web page at the bottom of the right hand chart titled GENERAL ELECTIONS.

If for some reason the number at the bottom isn't 106%, I saved a copy at about 10:52 am 11/27/2004, attached below.

A Wyoming paper explained this by saying same day registration accounted for the disparity, which as the blogger who posted this noted, would mean if turn out was as high as it was in Ohio and Florida, 36% of voters would have registered election day. That's a lot of procrastinators to get off their dead ass at the last minute.

The numbers faked aren't gigantic in the grand scheme of things, but it does go the pattern we saw in Florida in 2000, and in Florida, Ohio, and elsewhere this year of doing anything to win, including manipulating the numbers.


http://soswy.state.wy.us/election/profile.htm


FROM THE ORIGINAL BLOG:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00000987.htm

Eagle-eyed commentor Tracy updates us with a Nov 6th item from Wyoming's Casper Star-Tribune offering this "explanation":

"This was an exciting election day in Wyoming, with many people registering at the polls," Secretary of State Joe Meyer said Wednesday.
...
"It is possible to have a voter turnout of more than 100 percent because Wyoming statutes allow voters to register at the polls on election day," he said.
...
"Having Wyoming's Dick Cheney on the ballot has probably driven our high voter turnout the last two presidential elections," Meyer said.


So that explains that. For the record, Ohio, which doesn't have same day registration, but was the most contested state in the union this year had a registered voter-turnout of 69.86%.

Presuming interest was as high in Wyoming -- the reddest of the red states, where Bush won handily -- as it was in Ohio, that would mean that some 36% of the total electorate registered on Election Day in Wyoming.

As I said...keep moving...nothing to see here...these aren't the droids you're looking for...

[acmavm]

1. I bet if you asked that 36% they wouldn't be able to remember (or prove)

that they registered to vote that day.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Isn't this the same state that Cheney bragged about...

delivering to the * Campaign 2 days after the election.

[cavanaghjam]

3. All it would take for such results

in a state so sparsely populated would be for Cheney to vote twice.

[oldtime dfl_er]

4. I don't suppose there are public records

of who registered on election day? Aren't voting records and rolls public? Can't anyone look at the "one week before the election" rolls vs the "election day" rolls?

[yurbud]

5. Wyoming population

I visited there once, and it's so thinly populated it makes Alaska look like New York.

[NJ_Lib]

6. You would think...

they would have a record of exactly who registered to vote on Nov 2... Aren't they obligated by law to keep such a thing? Couldn't this be a part of the FOIA filed by Bev?

[me b zola]

7. Can Anybody say Ukraine???

:think: This and the other 'abnormalities' of our presidential election is what our republican administration is using to say that the Ukrainian election does not meet international standards of a fair and valid election. WHAT HYPOCRITES!!!!!

[tommcintyre]

8. kick