Republican Voting Fraud in Florida

The original tables on Republican voting fraud in Florida included only the 54 counties in that state who tracked both the over-votes and under-vote in the November 7th election. Remarkably, 13 of the 67 counties did not track the over and under vote. Since my original posting, I discovered I had downloaded a November 21st, 2000 table from the Orlando Sentinel showing the uncounted voted for all 67 counties.

Table 1 is a modified version of a table from CNN/AP showing vote totals in 54 of the 67 Florida counties reporting overvotes and undervotes combined with the Orlando Sentinel data showing only the total of the uncounted votes in each of the 67 counties. I have added on a Column 16 showing the total presidential vote for Bush, Gore and all other candidates. Table 1 shows that almost 180,000 Floridians did not have their votes counted, almost 3 percent of the total. Several Florida counties had undercounts of almost ten per cent. Many California counties also use punch card ballots which are centrally counted. The percentage of the undervote is these California counties in the November 7th, 2000 election was less than 1%, usually around 0.75% to 0.8%.

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/Table1.Florida.html

Table 2 is a sort of Table 1 by voting method and vote counting method. Where the percentage of uncounted, under-counted, or over-counted votes is greater than 1%, the numbers have been shown in bold.

Look at the optical scan votes which are centrally counted. Seventeen (17) of the 20 counties show uncounted vote percentages greater than 1%. Of the 17 counties, 16 were Republican-controlled.

Look at the precinct counting of optical scan votes in 20 counties. Seven counties -- Calhoun, Columbia, Escambia, Holmes, Manatee, Okaloosa and Walton counties -- show uncounted vote percentages greater than one percent. All seven counties were Republican-controlled. In the remaining 13 counties, the percentage of overvotes, undervotes and the total of both is comparable to the percentages of overvotes, undervotes and the total of both in a number of California counties using punched card voting with central counting. Of the 13, 7 were carried by Gore.

Look at the single county using paper ballots which were hand counted. Of the 4,084 votes, 258 (6.32%) were uncounted. Union County is Republican-controlled.

Look at the 25 "punch card" counties. The percentage of uncounted votes in these counties ranges from 1.69% in Baker County to 9.23% in Duval County. Seven of the "punch card" counties did not track the over-vote and the under-vote. The total uncounted vote percentages in those seven counties were 8.24%, 6.64%, 5.15%, 9.59%, 9.19%, 7.23% and 4.68%. Six of those seven counties are Republican-controlled.

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/Table2.Florida.html

Table 3 combines an extract from Table 2 with an Orlando Sentinel table showing voter intent in the 15 counties using optical scan votes centrally counted. It is apparent the Orlando Sentinel selected the 15 counties where the percentages of overvotes and undervotes were high.

http://www.netmagic.net/~franklin/Table3.Florida.html