Reply #11: THANK YOU! I haven't downloaded the spreadheet yet, but the other [View All]

[AirAmFan]

two URLS are EXCELLENT, and I saw daytes as early as December 2nd on them.

Your first URL shows 583 polling places in Cuyahoga County, but enough precincts co-located at those places to take up 52 pages! Co-location was the RULE, not the EXCEPTION in Cuyahoga.

Has anyone done this same analysis for other urban counties that used punch machines?

It's early for an overall assessment, but it seems as though this one problem, "caterpillar/shuffle" votes for the wrong candidate, could account for HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of lost votes for Kerry.

In principle, Bush could suffer from the same problem, if hundreds of thousands of people who wanted to vote for Bush had been herded into overcrowded places to wait in line for hours and hours in the chaos of pouring rain on Election Day. But the relative wealth of pro-Bush areas assured that such overcrowding had to be rare. For example, during Wednesday's Conyers hearing, a very articulate Kenyon student pointed out that, while the Kenyon campus had only two machines for 1300 registered voters, surrounding pro-Bush counties had enough voting machines to cap registered voters per machine at 100.