Results of voter suppression?

[KerryOn]

I picked a small suburb in Columbus, Ohio and compared the presidential election results of 2004 to that of 2000. This suburb has always been dominated by republicans and probably always will be. To my knowledge there was not any evidence of voter suppression in this area.

The results are quite interesting and for those of you who like comparing numbers, the stats may be of interest to you.

Total votes in 2000 was 17,833
Total votes in 2004 was 19,146
Thats 1,313 more votes in 2004 (9% more votes)
Bush received 89 less votes in 2004. (5% less)
Kerry received 2,065 more votes in 2004 then Al Gore. (9% more)

So basically Kerry received the votes of all of the new voters. Not bad considering that this is a republican neighborhood.

If Kerry can do this much better than Al Gore in a neighborhood dominated by republicans, then just imagine what a difference it would make if the democratic neighborhoods would have had a fair playing field.

Here is the chart:

http://my.core.com/~dlrslr/UA2004PresidentialResults.htm

[Zan_of_Texas]

1. okay

It looks like Kerry got the new voters, plus the people who voted for Other last time seemed to vote for Kerry this time -- 3rd party candidates got 4% in 2000, only 1% this time.

I lived near Upper Arlington many years ago -- before I was old enough to vote!

So, what sort of voting machine is used there? Is Triad the tabulation company?

[KerryOn]

2. I'm not sure if it is Triad or not.

They use touch screen electronic machines. Some how I have never trusted them. You push the button and the lights come on. When your done you pres "vote", and the machine goes blank, so it seems like your votes are cast in to the dark obis.

[mulethree]

5. Danaher Guardian machines

http://guardianvoting.com/gvs/eo.html

Electronic but not touchscreen. A touchscreen is like a computer screen with no real buttons, you push buttons that are drawn on the screen rather like using a mouse, but using your finger on the screen.

Pretty simple little computer in there and a bunch of electromechanical switches and LED lights.


This is the county with the big hubub about the republican districts having plenty of machines while the Democrat districts didn't have enough causing 5 hour lines and thousands of Dem voters skipping the long line or leaving it without voting. While the republicans were voting in 15 minutes or less.

[Skink]

3. So really what you are saying is

this was a county that had more than one voting machine per ten sqaure miles and the machines were on the safe list.

[KerryOn]

4. You got it

We had four machines in our precinct. I know of a neighbor hood in the southern part of the city, that is dominated by Democrats, and they only had two machines for about the same number of voters.

I did have to wait in line, but only for twenty minutes. Some of the folks in the southern neighborhood waited two to four hours.