December 21, 2004

WA State Governors Race - interesting anomalies

Stefan Sharkansky writing over at Sound Politics has taken a close look at those recently discovered ballots in King County, crunched a few statistical numbers and finds that they do not seem to add up. Here's a simple chart (his website has the full-sized version of this):
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Guess where the "suspicious ballots" live on this chart? BINGO! Here's the poop: bq. The 573 Magical Mystery Ballots, Redux Yesterday I obtained a copy of the latest King County voter registration file (updated Nov. 1) so I could learn more about the 573 allegedly disenfranchised magical mystery voters. Here are just the first things I've discovered. bq. There is a suspicious pattern regarding the dates when these alleged voters allegedly registered to vote. Another gem: bq. The next oldest voters are recorded as having registered in 1920. Alvin J. Huber of Shoreline, still flagged as an "Active" voter, last voted in the election of September 1995. According to the Social Security database, he voted with his feet in 1998 and moved to a county where there are no elections. But if Mr. Huber is still eligible to vote in King County, I have to wonder who else is eligible to vote here, and whose relatives are taking advantage of that fact? Dead Man Voting? I thought that was Richard Dailey and Chicago, not ineffectual intellectual Seattle... Posted by DaveH at December 21, 2004 9:04 PM