To be fair, one needs to look to the historical trends in these counties.
For example, in Calhoun County, a small county in Florida’s panhandle, Bush received 3,780 votes according to CNN.com, and Kerry received 2,116. According to the voter registration statistics provided on the State of Florida’s website, there were 993 registered Republicans and 6,879 Democrats, with 8,350 total registered voters in the county. If we assume that all of the voters in the county who weren’t registered Democrats showed up and voted for Bush in this election, that still leaves 2,309 Democrats who had to have voted for Bush — at least 52%.
However, in 2000 at least 1,998, or 48%, of Democrats had to have voted for Bush, and in 1996, at least 38% or 1,121 voting Democrats voted for Dole.
This is just one county, but we do see a 14% increase in "turncoat Democrats" in eight years.
If someone wants to do the math on it in all Florida optical scan counties and show the percentage INCREASE in Democrats who voted Republican, I’d be more interested. But as a Southerner, I know that many people will vote for Democratic Senators and Representatives but Republican presedential candidates. A theory was raised that the high percentage of registered Democrats in these panhandle counties has more to do with local politics than opnions of presidential candidates.
The data given at www.ustogether.org is compelling but incomplete without historical background. I think that logical fallacies being perpetuated (taking evidence outside of scope) discredits the entire verified voting movement — if one of our claims can be debunked, then the rest must be garbage, right? I hope someone can do the analysis for historical trends, and then we can use that as a better judge of the scope of the voter fraud which I do believe happened in this election.
To be fair, one needs to look to the historical trends in these counties.
For example, in Calhoun County, a small county in Florida’s panhandle, Bush received 3,780 votes according to CNN.com, and Kerry received 2,116. According to the voter registration statistics provided on the State of Florida’s website, there were 993 registered Republicans and 6,879 Democrats, with 8,350 total registered voters in the county. If we assume that all of the voters in the county who weren’t registered Democrats showed up and voted for Bush in this election, that still leaves 2,309 Democrats who had to have voted for Bush — at least 52%.
However, in 2000 at least 1,998, or 48%, of Democrats had to have voted for Bush, and in 1996, at least 38% or 1,121 voting Democrats voted for Dole.
This is just one county, but we do see a 14% increase in "turncoat Democrats" in eight years.
If someone wants to do the math on it in all Florida optical scan counties and show the percentage INCREASE in Democrats who voted Republican, I’d be more interested. But as a Southerner, I know that many people will vote for Democratic Senators and Representatives but Republican presedential candidates. A theory was raised that the high percentage of registered Democrats in these panhandle counties has more to do with local politics than opnions of presidential candidates.
The data given at www.ustogether.org is compelling but incomplete without historical background. I think that logical fallacies being perpetuated (taking evidence outside of scope) discredits the entire verified voting movement — if one of our claims can be debunked, then the rest must be garbage, right? I hope someone can do the analysis for historical trends, and then we can use that as a better judge of the scope of the voter fraud which I do believe happened in this election.