Reply #12: Merced Co. - some strangeness.... [View All]

[mountebank]

I've been following the results on the SoS page as they've come in.

http://vote2004.ss.ca.gov/Returns/pres/59.htm

Merced Co. was sticking out because it was showing that only 77% of people who cast a ballot cast a vote for President. I figured the absentees hadn't been counted. Today I looked. Sure enough, some ballots had been added, but only enough to bring the percentage up to 84%. Meaning 16% undervoted or decided not to vote for President. Then I went to another page on the SoS website:

http://vote2004.ss.ca.gov/Returns/status.htm

I found the number of ballots CAST had been reduced by almost 10K from 68,746 to 58,752. No screen grab on the original, of course.....

Merced uses the ES&S iVotronic machine, for whatever it's worth.