Broward County Florida Election Web Site: Precinct D001 has 109% Turnout Rate

Broward Supervisor of Elections Site ^ | 1/30/08

[Savage Beast]

Maybe they could call in that team of Democrats who can discern a voter's intent(s) by examining the "chads". That'll straighten it all out. Some voters no doubt intended to vote for more than one candidate--more than once! That's Democrats for you!

[GregoTX]

Looks my old High School football coach must have retired, moved to Florida and became the election Judge for Broward County. He used to somehow demand 110% from us too.

[JerseyHighlander]

An update from a blog I have never read before, but it's good info as far as i can tell, plus this guy called the county election commissioner for information:

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 1/31/2008 3:23PM  

Broward County Voters Give 110% in Florida Primary!

'Unofficial Results' on County Website Shows Turnout Exceeds Registered Voters in Precinct D001

Officials Have No Explanation for Now, Said to Be 'Still Reviewing That Information'...

Turnout at Broward County, Florida's precinct D001 was excellent in last Tuesday's primary election, according to the "unofficial results" posted on this county webpage.

With 1,028 ballots cast, and 930 registered voters at the precincts, voters having turned out, the turnout was an impressive %110.54!

The BRAD BLOG called the Broward County Supervisor of Elections office, and spoke with Patricia McCallister, an assistant to Supervisor Dr. Brenda C. Snipes. She told us that they are "still reviewing that information" and that they "don't have an answer" at this time for the anomalous numbers.

The results will "become official this coming Friday," she told us, recommending that we call back on Monday after the final results have been determined, for further explanation as to what may have happened. The complete "unofficial results" for Broward are available here.

For the record, Broward used paperless ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting machines last Tuesday. The same machines which apparently lost some 18,000 votes in the razor thin, 369-vote margin race between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings for the Congressional seat previously occupied by former FL SoS Katherine Harris. In that November 2006 election, Buchanan was announced the winner in that race, despite the fact, more than a full year later, no definitive explanation has ever been determined to explain the thousands of missing votes in Sarasota County's 13th Congressional district race.

Perhaps a few of those lost ES&S iVotronic votes from Sarasota in '06, have finally shown up shown up on ES&S iVotronic machines in Broward County in '08.

Last Tuesday's primary election in the Sunshine State was the last to use such touch-screen systems, as the State's Republican Governor and Legislature have finally agreed to trash the unreliable, untransparent, hackable voting systems once and for all. They will still be in wide-use, however, across the country in many other states this year, where Election Officials continue to be in dangerous denial about the unsuitability of such machines --- with or without so-called "paper trails" --- for American elections.

Special Pre-Emptive Note to the Management of Daily Kos and their Front-Page Diarists:
The BRAD BLOG is not alleging fraud, conspiracy (dark or otherwise), or that Hillary Clinton or John McCain, who each won their respective race in that precinct, have stolen any election anywhere at any time, much less in Broward County, FL. We simply post the above item, as part of our continuing, ongoing efforts towards ensuring transparent, verified and accurate elections in America. We look forward to your joining us some day in that fight. Until then, best of luck in your endeavors.

UPDATE 3:55pm PT: Additional breakdown of precinct numbers in both the Republican and Democratic Primary race, as well as a Property Tax Initiative that was on the ballot in Broward's D001 precinct, now follow below. Unfortunately, they seem to beg more questions than they answer...

According to Broward County's website, here is how the numbers break down in each race on the ballot:

ALL VOTES (Early, Election Day & Absentee)
Republican: 181
Democratic: 786
Tax Initiative: 1011

Broken down, the numbers look like this (click on the header to see the numbers on the Broward County website in each category):

EARLY VOTING
Republican: 8
Democratic: 627
(Total D+R: 635)
Tax Initiative: 640

ELECTION DAY VOTING
Republican: 138
Democratic: 146
(Total D+R: 284)
Tax Initiative: 325

ABSENTEE VOTING
Republican: 35
Democratic: 13
(Total D+R: 48)
Tax: 46

In total, that amounts to...

TOTAL D+R VOTERS: 967
TOTAL TAX INITIATIVE VOTERS: 1011

Why one part of the same website declares 1028 votes total, as per the graphic at the top of this article, yet the maximum number of votes recorded is 1011 total for the tax initiative, is unknown.

If 1028 voters voted, that means that 17 of them went to the trouble of casting a ballot with no vote on it whatsoever, for either Primary or for the tax initiative.

As to why there are 44 voters who seem to have voted for the tax-initiative, but chose not to vote in either the D or R Presidential Primaries, we also can't tell you. Perhaps some voters voted only on the tax initiative and had no preference in either Presidential Primary. Or perhaps they "wrote in" another candidate, if that was allowed, whose votes are not reflected on the Broward County website results. Or perhaps they voted in the Presidential Primary, but as in the Sarasota FL-13 race in 2006, their vote was simply "lost" to the ether.

Using the 1011 votes counted for the tax initiative, the undervote rate in the Presidential primaries would be 4.35%.

Using the 1028 number, the undervote rate for the Presidential primaries would be 5.93%.

Of course, whether the total number of voters was 1011 or 1028, it still does not explain why there were so many voters than the 930 said to be registered in that precinct.

The Broward County website says that no provisional ballots were cast in that precinct.

[gruna]

Are we expected to believe only eight Republicans voted early, while 627 Democrats did so?

[GregoTX]

ALL VOTES (Early, Election Day & Absentee)

Republican: 181

Democratic: 786

.

EARLY VOTING

Republican: 8

Democratic: 627

.

rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiight

Of course I anticipate 0 investigation

[King of Florida]

Although I still think there is ultimately not much to see here (let alone anything that would affect the results), it might be worthwhile to forward this to the Sun-Sentinel.

Then again, that fishwrap of a newspaper is full of j-school drop outs and editors more interested in what color thong they will wear while roller blading this weekend than any serious journalistic endeavors.

[BohDaThone]

The problem is pretty clearly with the dem "early vote" figure. As I noted earlier, the precinct is close in registration, which is reflected in the absentee ( GOP's usually vote more absentee) and in the regular votes. I still lean toward a data entry glitch, or possibly an early voting site or sites that misallocated votes to this precinct (coding error so that votes by early dems elsewhere got dumped into this precinct line)and, hopefully, disappeared from elsewhere!)

As to the number differences, Independents (about 10%) can't vote in the party primaries, but could vote on the initiative. As to the "undervote" that you think might mean a person went and voted on nothing (which could happen just be being really dumb), if some people voted for candidates but not the initiaitve (didn't care, or didn't understand it) and a few others voted on the initiative but not candidates (independents per above, plus a lot of folk in both parties who favored "None of the Above") you could easily have individual race totals well under the total number of voters and yet everbody voted on SOMETHING. Keep digging!

[Dante3]

There have been several accounts of voter fraud in Florida.

[madconservative]

Thanks for the follow-up. This is very interesting. Good find on the blog.

[Shopseze]

I agree, how does 100% go to 109.+% the votes are not completed,absentee ballots have not been calculated...hmmm could this be voter fraud?

[longtermmemmory]

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[meyer]

I understand what you're pointing out and it should be checked into...but it's a difference of 90 votes. Hardly result changing.

It's a difference of 90 votes in one little precinct. Multiply that level of fraud by the many, many precincts in democrat-controlled areas and you can see several thousand fraudulent votes for Obama. And that's just in Florida.

The election is being stolen right before our eyes. And nobody's doing anything about it.

[weston]

This is from the Primaries????

[longtermmemmory]

it is old, I thought the same thing, HOWEVER contrast this with the post above which shows the CURRENT VOTING.

To: JerseyHighlander
ALL VOTES (Early, Election Day & Absentee)
Republican: 181

Democratic: 786

.

EARLY VOTING

Republican: 8

Democratic: 627

.

rrrrrrrriiiiiiiiight

Of course I anticipate 0 investigation

85 posted on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:16:48 PM by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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