Dazed and Bemused

Drunken recollections, boring anecdotes, and obscure references

Monday, November 08, 2004

I just can't believe all the things people say

I haven't confirmed these results for my own self, I'll do that tonight after work hours, but this is really interesting.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm

In summary, someone did some statistical analysis of the percentages of registered Republicans and Democrats in counties that used optical-scan ballot systems, and noticed that in many counties where optical-scan was used, the recorded vote totals were far off what would be expected if people voted their affiliations, as an example, Baker county with 24.3% registered Republicans voted 77.7% for Bush.