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Yikes! A 138 percent voter turnout?
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Location: Blogs Marion Politics |
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| Posted by: Ocala.com Election Coverage |
1/30/2008 11:11 AM |
No fraud ... just an oops
If you’re ambitious enough, or bored enough, to sit down and analyze how each of Marion County’s 151 precincts voted Tuesday night, you might notice an alarming phenomenon.
In several precincts, the voter turnout was more than 100 percent, like precinct 25, where there are only 87 registered voters but 120 people cast ballots.. That’s about a 138 percent voter turnout, if you’re keeping track.
Voter fraud? Hardly.
According to the Marion County Supervisor of Elections office, there’s a simple explanation.
Several precincts vote in the same polling location but each voter is supposed to receive a ballot marked for his or her specific precinct. If a poll worker isn’t careful, he or she might give a precinct 21 voter a ballot marked for precinct 25. The vote total comes out the same, but more ballots are credited to precinct 25 and fewer are credited to precinct 21.
- Tom McNiff
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Re: Yikes! A 138 percent voter turnout? |
By joe brown on
1/30/2008 11:33 AM |
| yea right. good as any i guess |
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Re: Yikes! A 138 percent voter turnout? |
By chuck reed on
2/1/2008 12:38 PM |
| I voted out of precinct,it was convenient.I like the fact you can vote at any site in the county.I saved alot of time and gas by being able to just stop by a poll site and not having to stop what i was doing and run all the way across the county to vote,although the machine I used didnt want to register my choice for presidential nominee until I forcefully and repeatedly pounded on the choice button.(the poll worker kept stating I must have voted already) |
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Here we go again |
By HangingChad on
3/8/2008 11:55 PM |
| IF A POLL WORKER ISN'T CAREFUL! You've got to be kidding me. I would think there would be some kind of check and balance system in place to prevent such a thing. After all, it's pretty important. We have fought wars and people have given their lives to secure our freedom, and our right to vote. I hope this is not a preview of things to come. It can't be that difficult! |
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