110.54% Voter turnout in Broward County, FL precinct

[whopis01]

It looks like the good people of precinct D001 in Broward County, FL have quite literally given 110% in the primary!

Here is a handy little map that you can get to from the Broward County Supervisor of Elections:

http://enr2.clarityelections.com/Default.aspx?page=VT&c=broward&eid=270&lid=1&ref=false

It shows the voter turnout percentages as a color scale on the map. There is one precinct that stands out in green (90-100% turnout according to the legend). Click on that district to bring up the detailed info and it brings up this:

http://enr2.clarityelections.com/Default.aspx?page=VTD&c=broward&eid=270&lid=1&ref=false#D001

which clearly shows 110.54% voter turnout for that district.

Is this some kind of mistake or are they not even bothering to hide this stuff that well any more?

Either way there is something very wrong.

As a side note, there were 3 times as many absentee ballots requested in Broward County for this election than there were in 2004 (Though that may be attributed to incumbent / lack of a republican primary in that election)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbearlyvote0121sbjan21,0,950033.story

Good job they use touch screen voting down there or they might have run out of paper ballots...

[jgraz]

1. None of these elections are legitimate

Let's just ask Diebold and ES&S who they want to win and have the Supreme Court select that candidate. It would save a lot of time and trouble.

[fasttense]

2. That is so like the old USSR. n/t

[LakeSamish706]

3. The post is making me laugh, but it seriously is no laughing mater....

Once again it would seem that these machines give proof to just how an election can be flawed with no paper trail for backup.

[whopis01]

4. I am amazed that this doesn't raise any automatic flags.

You would think that when these results are tabulated, there would be something somewhere that would would alert on something so obviously incorrect.

[suston96]

5. Obama lost so...where's the recount....? Recount ! Recount ! Recount, Now...! nt.

[whopis01]

9. My posting of this has nothing to do with Obama losing.

Election error/fraud should always be investigated. I'm not suggesting that they do a recount (I don't think it would show any different results). I am simply saying that there is something that needs to be investigated here.

This may be due to election fraud.

This may be due to faulty reporting from the precincts.

This may be due to someone simply typing in the wrong number for the number of registered voters.

Just when an error stands out as obvious as this one, it is mind boggling that no one looks into it.

[redqueen]

6. *sigh*

It's really hard to see a point in trying...

[AtomicKitten]

7. Effin hell! We will not have a clean vote until we get rid of EVMs.

[aquart]

8. Good ol' Broward.

You can always depend on them to make a mockery of democracy.

[whopis01]

11. Yes you can....

Just makes you wonder if it is through maliciousness or incompetence.

[Blackhatjack]

10. Well 110.54% turnout Does NOT trigger any kind of alarm in Florida....

After all.... Huckleberry asked his supporters to vote multiple times before the Primary, remember?

I would imagine that 133% turnout would raise an eyebrow, but they were way below that amount here.

All is well.... nothing to see..... move along...

[madrchsod]

12. and i thought cook county was crooked

vote early and vote often!

[rucky]

13. oooops!

[goldcanyonaz]

14. Vote early, and often.

[MammalSauce]

15. A few numbers to consider

It looks like the discrepancy mainly comes from a Property Tax Question. 683 voted Yes and 328 voted No (1011 total). There are only 930 registered voters in that precinct.

Also, there were 786 total votes in the Democratic primary. That seems like a high turnout for an irrelevant primary, but that doesn't really prove anything.

There were 181 votes in the Republican primary. Adding the Republican and Democrat votes, that comes out to 967 votes.

Those were the only things that really stood out to me. Anyone can download the results here http://enr2.clarityelections.com/Default.aspx?page=R&c=broward&eid=270&lid=1&ref=false

I used the excel spreadsheet to get my numbers.

[whopis01]

17. The signficance of the Property Tax Question is

that is would be the only question that was available to all voters (Registered Democrats, Republicans, and indepentants). Since Florida has a closed primary, ballots for independents would only have the state, county, or city questions/amendments/etc and would not have candidate choices. I'm not sure what local questions were on the ballots in that precinct, but the Property Tax Questions was a state-wide question. So the discrepancy between the 786 Democratic votes combined with the 181 Republican votes (total 967) and the 1011 votes on the property tax can be accounted for by the independents that could not vote for a candidate.

[DemReadingDU]

16. morning kick

[Snarkoleptic]

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