Word: precincts
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That lack of change comes in spite of evidence that not all votes were counted four years ago. A report by the Columbus Dispatch found that of ballots cast in a typical Ohio precinct during the 2000 presidential election, only a sliver—less than two percent—did not have a vote for president recorded on them. But in poorer areas like Ohio’s Appalachia region, presidential votes are much less likely to be recorded; and in predominantly black precincts, presidential votes went uncounted at nearly three times that rate. No one knows...
...while the initial discord between exit polls and election results on November 2 was puzzling, putting together the pieces since then has turned out to be all too easy. In Ohio, Bush received 3,893 votes-without-voters, while one precinct came out with a final vote tally of negative 25 million. In a sworn affidavit in Perry County, OH, an election poll worker noted 96 more votes than voters at a single precinct. Unfortunately, the list goes on—these are just a few of the stories from one battleground state. But throughout dozens of states?...
Three times over the course of the day, poll watchers from both parties could enter precincts and scan the lists of voters to see who had turned out and who had not. Then they called their war rooms so volunteers--the Republicans called them flushers--could call the voters who hadn't yet cast a ballot, give a pep talk, offer a ride. In Franklin County the board of elections handed out more than 800 cell phones to the nonpartisan precinct judges there so they could call the board to report any problems or ask questions...
Some machines, however, had bigger issues: “Voter’s machine defaulted to Republican candidate each time she voted for a Democrat,” one report from Cobb County, Georgia reads. “She told the precinct supervisor about the problem. It continued to happen 7 times.” Similar incidents occurred in reasonably large numbers—some voters tried to push a button for Kerry or Bush and found that the X would appear next to the name of the other candidate...
...Ward 7, Precinct 3—which includes all freshman dorms and Adams House as well as Cambridge residents—had an active voter turnout rate of 85 percent. Ward 4, Precinct 3 and Ward 8, Precinct 3—encompassing the River Houses except Adams—had a combined rate of 79 percent. Ward 8, District 1, covering the Quad Houses, had 88 percent...