Reply #18: Castor votes [View All]

[rzemanfl]

I have been wondering this since the day after the election.
Not knowing where else to turn, I e-mailed Michael Moore about it back then.

I looked at the Pinellas County results, gave all the third party Presidential votes to Castor, subtracted all the third party and write in votes for Senator from Bush's votes and subtracted the number of people in Pinellas who voted for President but didn't vote for Senator all from Bush's total to arrive at an estimate of the folks who must have voted Bush/Castor. The number votes that Castor got that exceeded Kerry's total (after giving her all the Nader and other third party Presidential votes and which had to have come from Bush voters) and the difference between the Bush and Martinez votes after subtracting under votes, third party and write-ins from the Bush/Martinez difference were a single digit apart. I believe the numbers were 4,871 and 4,870. I did this math at work before they found the extra ballots that Pinellas always seems to leave laying around and don't know whether they have changed the official numbers.

I am not much of a mathematician, but this oddity concerns me. Voting Bush/Castor is like voting Hitler/Mother Theresa.