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Media Report 25% of Current Florida Primary Ballots Never-Voted Before EVER
The Conservative Tree House ^ | 4/28/16 | Sundance

Posted on 08/29/2016 3:50:13 AM PDT by taildragger

Media Report: 25% of Current Florida Primary Ballots Never Voted Before, EVER…

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[…] We’re in unprecedented, unchartered territory,” said Florida Chamber president and CEO Mark Wilson. “Nobody’s been polling these people, nobody’s been marketing to these people.”….

The “Monster Vote is the name attributed to the largest voting bloc in U.S. history.  The voters who have/had given up on the political process because it seemed futile to vote for a rigged system where nothing ever changes.  –Outlined Here

However, we first noted the surfacing of the Monster Vote in relation to the political outsider Donald Trump toward the end of 2015.  It was, and is, a rather controversial theorem because the voting bloc would make all media polling completely irrelevant.

Throughout the latter part of 2015 and into the first quarter of 2016 we put our research antenna on high alert to see if the indications were real.  We paid a statistician to model the data we collected. We made predictions which, if the bloc was accurate, would stun the professional political class.

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Tracking social media, geographic “non-media polling” and alternate media matrices led us to believe Trump would dominate in the presidential primary.  The predictions modeled the results with uncanny accuracy.  Gobsmacking accuracy.

A few months later the New York Times began quietly evolving it’s electoral modeling.  Washington Post political writer Bob Costa began talking about something that he too was noticing which tracked with our own research.   Large numbers of the electorate who never engaged in the political process before were becoming increasingly visible.

Throughout this entire year there have been indications the “Monster Vote” is very real, but you have to look carefully to see them – and, obviously, you must inoculate yourself from conformational bias.   400,000 donations to Trump less than $200 in June was one such example.  The social media app Zip App is yet another. 2,000,000 views of an innocuous Trump facebook video within 24 hours is another.

It’s a tenuous discussion because everyone wants to belittle anyone talking about it (looking at you Rush Limbaugh), and simultaneously those holding Cold Anger intensity don’t talk about it – everyone just goes about their business, yet everyone seems to know.

Well, the left-leaning Tampa Bay Times has just dropped a big bit of data which seems to also confirm the existence of this phenomenon:

“More than 25% of the inbound mail-in or absentee ballots in the upcoming primary, have NEVER VOTED BEFORE“:…

[…]  “This is huge,” said Marian Johnson, senior vice president of political strategy for the Florida Chamber and one of the foremost experts on Florida campaigns and politics. “I can envision election night when the votes are counted that certain people win that nobody thought had a chance, and that being attributed to this trend.”

As of Thursday morning, more than 855,000 primary ballots had been cast by mail. More than a quarter of those votes came from Floridians who had not voted in the last four primaries and another 20 percent from people who voted in just one of the last four primaries.

In other words, these are not “likely voters” surveyed by most pollsters or targeted by sophisticated political campaigns. The trend applies to Democrats and Republicans alike and across the state, said Johnson, who was shocked when she first spotted the trend developing weeks ago.

“The first thing I did was go back to my data people and said, ‘Are you sure you ran this right?’ “

They had. The data crunchers looked at who requested mail ballots and who is returning them, and categorized each voter by a zero, one, two, three or four — depending on how many of the last four primaries they voted in.

[…]  We’re in unprecedented, unchartered territory,” said Florida Chamber president and CEO Mark Wilson. “Nobody’s been polling these people, nobody’s been marketing to these people.”  (read more)

florida coc trump poll♦ Remember, even in honest scientific polling – the poll methodologies are based on “assumptions”, or inputs into the collected poll samples in order to make them representative of the anticipated turnout.

♦ Thanks to Donald Trump, historic turnout trends are obsolete. Additionally, historic demographics and party affiliations are also obsolete.  As a consequence any poll data that is relying on obsolete sample methodology is going to be significantly inaccurate.

If the current ballot data reported in Florida (which does indeed line up with the changes in the Florida voter data-base) extends even remotely similar to the other states throughout the nation, the prior prediction graphic below might even be understated:

Republican voter turnout projected 2

Look below the surface

Quietly below the surface you find The Monster Vote


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; florida; monstervote
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To: Mollypitcher1
Primary voters are a different breed. I have a hard time believing that folks voting in the primary are part of the Trump monster vote.
21 posted on 08/29/2016 6:41:11 AM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: SamAdams76
"Are absentee ballots counted separately than same-day ballots? In other words, will we be able to see if there is a large statistical difference between the results of the absentee vs the same day ballots?"

I think it will vary by state. given different laws. In most states, I "think" they are all processed at the same time....but also given that the votes are recorded on different media (paper absentee vs machine count on election day), it should be easy to tell.

That is NOT true for where I live (near Tacoma WA). We have "all mail in" ballots, although there are limited places one can go and physically vote on "E-Day", the vote is still on the same paper ballot as the "mail-in".

22 posted on 08/29/2016 7:01:55 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: Wonder Warthog

“Media Report 25% of Current Florida Primary Ballots Never-Voted Before EVER”.....

Dogs and Cats, newly arrived “refugees”, undocumented aliens, THE MILITARY VOTES? Sounds like a lot of demodummie activities going on down there in Florida.


23 posted on 08/29/2016 7:11:36 AM PDT by DaveA37 (t)
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To: taildragger

This scares me more that massive voter fraud my democrats. Do new voters usually vote absentee?

Seems odd.


24 posted on 08/29/2016 8:09:45 AM PDT by Trumplican
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To: Be Free

Agree it’s a red light for voter fraud. There’s no past history so there’s no nothing to show if they’ve always voted one party for the past 3 decades.

Are they illegals?


25 posted on 08/29/2016 8:36:53 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: taildragger
Both my daughters,aged 19 and 24 made sure they registered to vote in this election. They are voting in their first election because of Donald Trump. I was a little surprised by the support Trump has from younger generations. I guess they can see what the obama future has in store for them.
26 posted on 08/29/2016 8:37:42 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: Trumplican

Yes, I’m concerned, too.

Are these people energized by Trump, or Walking Dead Dims?


27 posted on 08/29/2016 9:16:37 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Awgie

Why would you say that? Different, How?


28 posted on 08/29/2016 10:22:21 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Varda

What article says Absentee Ballots have been sent to every household. That is FALSE!!! If you want an absentee ballot you have to apply for it.


29 posted on 08/29/2016 10:27:49 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Mollypitcher1

I went back to the thread and you are correct. The linked article (same as referenced in the OP) had some wording that I misread. The article says that most of the “new” voters aren’t new voters at all. They’re just people who normally only vote in general elections.

“Those “new” primary voters included more than 86,000 Democrats, and more than 90,000 Republicans”

“The vast majority of these “new” primary voters are regular general election voters already, Johnson said.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article97969577.html#storylink=cpy


30 posted on 08/29/2016 11:22:10 AM PDT by Varda
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To: Varda

Thanks for double checking. Frankly, I think a lot of today’s articles are written to deliberately confuse...or else their authors never finished a writing class.


31 posted on 08/29/2016 3:39:24 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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