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Departments Election Issues Hacking the vote in Miami County Somehow the final total came in later that night at 50,235 votes cast, giving Bush a margin of 16,000 votes, exactly – 33,039 to 17,039. Moreover, as has been widely reported, even with the addition of 18,615 new votes, Bush's percentage was almost unchanged (65.80% to 65.77%), and Kerry's percentage was exactly the same (33.92%). This led some observers to believe that the optical scanner had been programmed to come out that way, to provide the desired 16,000-vote plurality. Miami County is also noteworthy because of the increase in Bush’s point spread. Bush beat Gore by 60.78% to 36.38% in Miami County, a margin of 24.40%, for a plurality 10,453 votes. While Kerry did receive more votes than Gore, his percentage of the vote was much lower. This time, Bush was reported to have won Miami County by a margin of 31.85%. Coupled with an increase in turnout, then reported at 17.26%, Bush increased his margin from 10,453 votes to 16,000, winning 7,002 of 7,394 new voters. Now the 1,609 provisional ballots have been examined, 1,542 of them have been counted, and the results have been certified. Bush now claims victory in Miami County with 34,005 votes (65.68%) to 17,611 votes (34.01%) for Kerry. Officially there were 51,777 votes counted for president, an increase of 20.86% over the 2000 presidential vote total. This represents an astonishing increase in voter turnout. The population of Miami County is reported to have grown from 98,868 to 100,230 since the 2000 census, an increase of only 1.38%. The number of registered voters has risen from 66,765 in 2000 to 72,169 in 2004, an increase of 8.09%. How did the Republicans do it? To answer this question I have compared, on a precinct by precinct basis, the presidential vote totals for 2004 with those of 2000. Since turnout was key to Bush’s impressive margin in Miami County, I have organized the data according to voter turnout. First a disclaimer: When Diane Miley of the Miami County Board of Elections faxed me the election results, she made the following disclaimer on the cover sheet: “Please note that the 11/7/00 turnout report is not included. Our predecessors made a programming error which didn’t permit a complete report.” Therefore, while I can calculate voter turnout for 2004 as total ballots cast divided by the number of registered voters, I cannot do the same for 2000. When comparing turnout in the two elections I can only compare the votes counted for president. MIAMI COUNTY PRECINCTS WITH HIGHEST TURNOUT, 2004 ELECTION Registered Votes Percent Voters Cast Turnout Bush Kerry Bush Gore CONCORD SOUTH WEST 689 679 98.55 520 157 378 132 CONCORD SOUTH 698 658 94.27 468 182 300 151 TIPP CITY F 622 550 88.42 360 184 249 166 TROY 3-G 848 732 86.32 496 231 184 96 TIPP CITY E 1195 979 81.92 754 221 581 205 TROY 4-F 604 490 81.13 395 94 122 42 MONROE EAST CENTRAL 935 757 80.96 508 247 426 275 TROY 2-D 650 524 80.62 306 216 306 288 PIQUA 5-B 1155 929 80.43 652 273 528 216 MONROE SOUTH EAST 1175 943 80.26 682 252 598 224 MONROE SOUTH 693 555 80.09 379 175 362 167 It is my professional opinion that these numbers are fraudulent, and that this election has been hacked. There simply was not a 98.55% turnout in Concord South West precinct or anywhere else in Ohio. Nor was there a 94.27% turnout in Concord South precinct. I do not believe that Bush won 111 of 129 new voters in Tipp City Precinct F, or 173 of 189 new voters in Tipp City Precinct E, or 273 of 325 new voters in Troy Precinct 4-F, or that voter turnout increased by 194.58% in Troy Precinct 4-F, or that voter turnout increased by 152.78% in Troy Precinct 3-G, or that Bush increased his margin by 110 votes among 54 new voters in Monroe East Central Precinct, or that 72 Democrats who voted in the 2000 election chose not to vote in 2004 in Troy Precinct 2-D while all the Republicans did. To further illustrate my point I have included the other three precincts with 80% turnout, all of which show modest increases for both candidates, as would be expected. MIAMI COUNTY PRECINCTS WITH LOWEST TURNOUT Registered Votes Percent Voters Cast Turnout Bush Kerry Bush Gore PIQUA 1-B/D 1095 545 49.77 270 270 164 220 PIQUA 3-A 1277 681 53.33 391 282 198 200 PIQUA 1-A 692 387 55.92 193 188 97 126 CONCORD SOUTH EAST 1199 678 56.55 502 171 572 206 TROY 4-A 796 477 59.92 278 194 202 164 TROY 4-B/D 881 520 59.02 256 258 178 211 PIQUA 5-A 757 456 60.24 231 220 175 192 TROY 4-E 711 429 60.34 217 203 148 195 It is my professional opinion that the reported results for the first four of these precincts are fraudulent also. I do not believe that (excluding third-party candidates in order to make my point clearly), John Kerry ran 7.3% behind Al Gore in Piqua Precinct 1-B/D, 8.35% behind Al Gore in Piqua Precinct 3-A, or 7.2% behind Al Gore in Piqua Precinct 1-A, nor do I believe the reported turnout of 49.77%, 53.33%, and 55.92% in a county said to have averaged 72.23% county wide, nor do I believe that turnout in these precincts, compared to the 2000 election, increased by 34.24%, 66.50%, and 63.25%, respectively, in a county that experienced only a 1.38% increase in population. Nor do I believe the reported turnout of 56.55% in Concord South East Precinct, which is no doubt contiguous to Concord South West and Concord South precincts, with their reported turnouts of 98.55% and 94.27%. I challenge the extremely high reported turnout in the Bush precincts and the very low reported turnout in the Kerry precinct. It is not my experience that Democrats don’t like to vote. I am skeptical of the results reported for the next four precincts also, where, in the aggregate, Bush gained 279 votes among 392 new voters, where Kerry ran behind Gore by 3.7%, 4.0%, 3.5%, and 8.5%, respectively. OTHER MIAMI COUNTY PRECINCTS WITH LARGEST INCREASE IN TURNOUT Vote Count Percent 2000 2004 Increase Bush Kerry Bush Gore TROY 2-F 192 321 67.19 407 227 282 146 PIQUA 5-C 380 580 52.63 375 205 214 159 TROY 2-E 435 634 45.75 407 227 282 146 BETHEL SOUTH CENTRAL 708 999 41.10 666 327 412 274 TIPP CITY G 536 708 32.09 478 229 332 186 TROY 1-D 538 704 30.86 459 243 344 185 TROY 3-E 515 672 30.49 406 265 296 208 PIQUA 2-B/C 403 523 29.78 278 243 167 219 PIQUA 4-B/C 334 431 29.04 238 193 173 154 WEST MILTON C 557 718 28.90 465 248 351 193 PIQUA 1-C/E 367 472 28.61 261 210 150 197 CONCORD NORTH 283 363 28.27 239 121 197 79 NEWBERRY WEST 478 612 28.03 428 183 337 131 PIQUA 3-D/E 364 464 27.47 273 186 185 166 It is my professional opinion that the reported results for many of these precincts are fraudulent also. I do not believe that voter turnout increased by 67.19% in Troy Precinct 2-F, 52.63% in Piqua Precinct 5-C, 45.75% in Troy Precinct 2-E, and 41.10% in Bethel South Central Precinct, in a county with 1.38% population growth. Nor do I believe that Bush won 254 of 307 new voters in Bethel South Central Precinct, 146 of 189 new voters in Tipp City Precinct G, 111 of 135 new voters in Piqua Precinct 2-B/C, 111 of 124 new voters in Piqua Precinct 1-C/E, or 88 of 108 new voters in Piqua Precinct 3-D/E. The reported results for the other six precincts could well be true, but only if voter turnout really did increase by 28.03% to 30.86%. |
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