[AaronInCarolina]

LS, Here is my correction and formatting of your data. The total figure at the bottom does not include the states that did not have data for 2008. but it shows that other than those state, the absentee balloting for Dems dropped by about 9.73% and Republicans increased by 45.78 percent. (Again, these figures may be different if we had the 2008 data for those states.)

                    2008                                  2012     
                                          D Increase      R Increase        I Increase  
Adams         843   1321     410      410 -51.36%     814 -38.38%      533  30.00%     -40% 
Allen                                1049            1946             2215             -15% 
Ashland                              1241            3258             4489             -27% 
Ashtabula    1789   1940    5224     2443  36.56%    2273  17.16%     5668   8.50%      13% 
Athens       4393   1054    5447     2298 -47.69%     935 -11.29%     4149 -23.83%     -20% 
Auglaize      437   1502    2019      338 -22.65%    1251 -16.71%     1589 -21.30%     -25% 
Belmont                              5335            2397             5306           -0.08% 
Brown         605   1016    2230      627   3.64%    1127  10.93%     1754 -21.35%    0.01% 
Butler                               1979            6883            14776             -45% 
Carrol        620   1061    1949      601  -3.06%     867 -18.28%     1622 -16.78%     -14% 
Champaign    1653   1820    1636      466 -71.81%    1381 -24.12%     1847  12.90%     -23% 
Clark        7403   3803    6831     3055 -58.73%    4137   8.78%     9862  44.37%   -0.05% 
Clermont                             1073            7084           14,587             -14% 
Clinton      1366   2039    2044      396 -71.01%    1659 -18.64%     2103   2.89%     -23% 
Columbiana   2678   1912    3249     1734 -35.25%    2258  18.10%     5342  64.42%      16% 
Coshocton     457   1244    3943      471   3.06%    1378  10.77%     2565 -34.95%   -0.07% 
Crawford     2018   1965    1808      873 -56.74%    1550  21.12%     2618  44.80%     -12%
Cuyahoga  151,296 36,232  96,224  138,493  -8.46%  52,039  43.63%   84,669 -12.01%   -0.03% 
Darke         743    966    2833      619 -16.69%    1968 103.73%     2587  -8.68%   -0.08% 
Defiance      620   1196    2701      585  -5.65%    1133  -5.27%     3754  38.99%     -12% 
Delaware                             2799            8754           17,041             -16% 
Erie         5720   2262    6253     3407 -40.44%    2458   8.66%     6048  -3.28%     -16% 
Fairfield                            5475            7984             7612             -20% 
Fayette       880    946    1366      242 -72.50%     488 -48.41%     1774  29.87%     -21% 
Franklin   48,811 40,334 180,656   33,690 -30.98%  36,218 -10.20%  149,626 -17.18%     -18% 
Fulton        552   1653    3150      443 -19.75%    1413 -14.52%     2255 -28.41%     -23% 
Geauga       1378   3840    8721     1333  -3.27%    3946   2.76%     8388  -3.82%   -0.01% 
Total      234262 108106  338694   211475  -9.73%  157599  45.78%   364779   7.70%  

[LS]

Thanks. Beautiful job. Realize this is not the whole chart, just the first 20+ counties ONLY for the purpose of showing that D losses are not offset by I increases. So it’s clear that Ds are down, not just being reclassified as “Unaffiliated” as some claim.

[Ravi]

Some of these counties are annoying me. They refuse to give us the data so we can keep it utd. That table above is grossly out of date for many republican counties for that reason. Warren, butler and clermont,I’m looking at you. They seem to only give data to the political parties. Please give it to us the general public.

Most dem counties are completely utd so KEEP THIS IN MIND!

Most counties use a simple algorithm to keep the running totals easy to follow and keep accurate. I hope for 2014 and 16, all counties use this simple application. Husted, make it happen. But i digress.

Dems are dems are dems. I showed ls using erie county as an example. We picked the first page of absentee voters labeled “dem” by erie. This is the exact data inputted into the spreadsheet. Several of these “dems” did not vote in the 2012 democratic primary but presumably had voted in prior years’ dem primaries so they kept their scarlet letter even though they did not vote in the 2012 dem primary.

There is a misconception that if you did not vote in the 2012 dem primary, you lose ur democrat label. Simply not true based on our erie example.