From: Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 08:03:32 PPET
The final totals for the recount are now in: Bush by less than 400,
pending absentee ballots. But there's a very weird pattern in the
totals by county, if you look at them at
http://foxnews.com/fn99/elections/florida_recount.html
From eyeballing this chart, the vast majority of the net change in the
totals came from a very few counties where the change was heavily
imabalanced in favor of Gore, with the bulk in just two:
Palm Beach - net change +643
Pinellas --- net change +478
Duval --- net change +168
Gadsden --- net change +163
Polk --- net change +129
The highest changes in favor of Bush were
Martin --- net change -105
Seminole --- net change -98 ---- (FWIW, last county to report)
No other county that I can spot had as much as a fifty vote net change
in favor of Bush. Note also that there were counties as populous as
many of these (Hillsboro, Miami-Dade, Broward(!)) where the shifts
weren't nearly as big, less than 50 --- some of which may have to do
with what equipment is used where, to be sure.
Even so, I am at a loss to explain how you generate numbers this
skewed by rolling fair dice of any description; am I nuts, or is this
statistical evidence of irregularity in the initial vote count ("let's
just not count these ballots here")?
Oh, BTW, speaking of absentee ballots,
http://www.feedmag.com/templates/daily.php3?a_id=1389
In 1998, Xavier Suarez was kicked out of the mayor's office after a
jury found a pattern fraud in absentee ballots. Now he sits on the
executive committee of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, in which
capacity he "helped ... enlist Republican absentee voters" in this
election.
You couldn't make this stuff up...
rst
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