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To: PullingToTheRight
I agree that most of the absentees/provisionals are tracking according to the vote in the county as a whole. King County still has 4,000 votes to be counted (but more can arrive before the 17th) and if they are evenly distributed through the county, Rossi would be down another 700 votes. There are substantial uncounted votes in Republican counties, so I think Rossi will pick up 1,500 to 2,000 added votes there to lead when the counting is done, assuming that ALL the votes to be counted are in hand today.

I worked a spread sheet that has tracked the changes since Election Day and the model using the absentee ballots favors Rossi slightly more than the overall vote model. If, for logisitical reasons, the remaining 4,000 King County votes are skewed to the districts with 85% D votes, the model will not work. Two of these districts (as of last Friday) returned fewer than expected absentees with a statistical significance (outside one std deviation)

For what it is worth, here is, in order of votes I project should be gained for Rossi by county: (null votes and voided ballots are assumed to be spread evenly, not impacting one candidate disproportionately) I also show in a memo column the absentee vote margin to date to show that it is comparable to the overall margins.:

Total  Memo: 
 Left to count  % R > D Proj Ab vote margin for Rossi Absentee margin
Benton                2,200 38% 837 39%
Yakima                2,500 30% 753 35%
Skagit                2,500 8% 193 10%
Stevens                  600 27% 159 31%
Chelan                  350 29% 101 30%
Columbia                  285 34% 97 55%
Franklin                  250 36% 90 40%
Island                  850 8% 68 8%
Kittitas                  300 22% 65 22%
Whitman                  600 10% 58 13%
Walla Walla                  100 28% 28 28%
Grant                    50 37% 19 44%
Lewis                    50 33% 17 38%
Clark                  200 8% 16 12%
Klickitat                  100 10% 10 14%
Adams                    25 38% 10 31%
Clallam                  100 7% 7 10%
Pend Oreille                    50 13% 7 12%
Lincoln                    20 33% 7 35%
Douglas                    20 33% 7 38%
Mason                  225 3% 6 8%
Pierce                  106 4% 4 7%
Spokane                    50 7% 4 9%
Skamania                    50 6% 3 8%
Kitsap                  200 1% 3 4%
Snohomish                  100 2% 2 5%
Grays Harbor                  300 1% 2 3%
Ferry                      5 19% 1 11%
Wahkiakum                      5 5% 0 -12%
Asotin                     -   16% 0 24%
Garfield                     -   32% 0 47%
Okanogan                     -   21% 0 24%
Cowlitz                    50 0% 0 7%
Pacific                    50 -5% -2 6%
Jefferson                    25 -18% -5 -14%
San Juan                  150 -22% -34 -19%
Whatcom                3,200 -2% -64 0%
Thurston                2,000 -9% -173 -8%
King                4,000 -18% -706 -17%
Total               21,666 1588

51 posted on 11/15/2004 7:15:35 PM PST by westfield3
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To: westfield3

I haven't checked your math but your total is less than I got applying a straight up count; I would post my results but I do not have the data here. I ran my projections every day taking into account the new total ballot counts and the new uncounted ballot counts and simply applying the percentage wins for each candidate. The numbers have suprised me on how stable the projected Rossi lead will be. He may even beat a mandatory recount.


54 posted on 11/15/2004 7:47:41 PM PST by PullingToTheRight
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