Comparisons of County and Precinct Voting for Pennsylvania (POTUS 2000)

FEC ^ | 9-18-01 | Me

[GraniteStateConservative]

I ran across these two maps of Pennsylvania's 2000 Presidential voting. The guy who did the precinct map figures that when he's done mapping out the U.S., "Gore" precincts will look like specks of dust in a sea of "Bush Blue"-- an even more pitiful sight than the county voting map made famous by USA Today. Now, I'd buy a bumper sticker of that!

County Map

Precinct Map

[poopsie2]

The only point you made I disagree with is #3. Not that my experience is the last word, but all of my neighbors are working class Catholic, all registered dems, and all voted for Bush. Now I'm only talking about neighbors right around me, but that's about 20-25 people who were mad as h*ll about the dems stand on guns and abortion. My county is registered overwhelmingly dem, and went for Bush. God bless 'em!

[brityank]

Sorry to be late, been slightly busy.
I did try to find the article, but I don't have access to the Inky's paper files. I do recall that Professor Rebecca Mercuri from Bryn Mahr was heavily involved in the resulting investigation, as she is one of the better analysts of election outcomes and procedures, and has testified before Congress.

The city of Philadelphia has a population af around 1.3 Million, and has over 1 Million registered voters. The School District has over 250 Thousand Students; and there are an additional 70+ Thousand other Students from Private School Kindergarten through College -- most of whom either don't vote or vote outside of Philadelphia; yet you have 99% and 100% turnout at the strongly Democrat precincts? Even the Professor disbelieves that.

As for the Lever Machines, they can be jimmied individually. They can't be done en masse; that's why bussing in 'voters' is the typical method of loading the results. Start asking where that "Walking Around Money" gets spent.

For you to claim that the elections in Philly have not been rigged in some way makes you the liar, not me.

[Ditto]

You are still slow on the take. My point is that such shenanagins would be totally impossible with Republican approval and co-operation.

Is there an elected Republican in Philadelphia? There are none in Pittsburgh and have not been for 65 years. It is a one party town. No dissent tolerated when it comes to election day.