I’m seeing a lot of muttering in the blogosphere about rampant voter fraud, or at least a lot of really unlikely-seeming occurrences, or things that just don’t seem to make sense. For example:
BREAKING: St. Lucie County, Florida Had 141.1% Turnout; Obama Won County
This article links to a PDF document released by the St. Lucie County elections board. The first few page have some rather startling results. Take, for instance, this line:
This seems to indicate that at the “Lakewood Park Village Hall” polling place, there were 4815 registered voters… but 6550 actual votes. Buh? This sort of thing happened at *every* polling place, resulting in an average of 141% of the registered voters voting.
But later on it gives this data:
And this:
I note that the “cards cast” number is almost exactly (but not precisely exactly) the same as the “Times Counted” number added to the “Total Votes” number. Which doesn’t make much sense to me. It looks like the “141%” turnout number is actually about twice the actual rate, but jut what the data means is obscure to me. If it’s just some weird data reduction system, it seems calculated to angry up the blood of the blogosphere.