[petitfour]

Ok. Correction. A lot of people get tired of voting and really have no clue of some of the local issues or races. I confess that I left some races blank on my own ballot. BUT in Wayne County, in an area full of the most illiterate Americans in the country, the down ticket races have 86% votes cast while the national average is much lower. As in, someone else is filling out some ballots and trying to make it look like the ballots are legit because the voter took the time to vote blah blah blah. Hubby’s eyeball guess is that 135K of Wayne County’s ballots are fraudulent. He also looked at the straight ticket votes, and he says those look hinky as well, but he can’t put his finger on why.

[Rusty0604]

It is almost statistically impossible for a district of several hundred people to have 100% turnout. Someone is going to be sick or disinterested or something.

[benldguy]

I was a Republican poll watcher in the city of Detroit during the 2000 Presidential election. I was responsible for 2 polling places which housed 7 precincts. In this election, of the approximately 350,000 votes cast, George W Bush received approximately 10,000, and the incumbent senator running for reelection, Spencer Abraham, received approximately 8,000.

To say that the voters did not have a clue is an understatement. The majority of voters arrived to vote with a pile of campaign literature, conveniently distributed by the union members at the door to the building housing the precincts. The average time to vote was about 20 minutes as the voters had to match the campaign literature to the office they were about to vote for. It was not a fun day.