I've looked over the Ohio vote county by county and a couple of things don't make sense.
In the counties that voted Bush, the turnout in those counties is consistently between 60 and 70%.
In counties that voted Kerry, the turnout according to the vote is consistently between 50 and 60%.
What could account for this? Were the Dems not fired up? Every report said it was so. Did Kerry get all his votes?
If you were in Ohio and involved in on the ground recruiting and campaigning please check to see if the vote numbers of your county jives with what you saw on the gound. more...
Ohio's growth in population has been miniscule in recent years and so the number of eligible voters did not increase very much between the elections.
US Census report says that the population of Ohio increased between April 2000 and July 2003, a scant 90,000.
http://tinyurl.com/4vclm
The voter increase on the other hand from the 2000 election to the 2004 election in Ohio is approx. 1,000,000!
The two parties split these votes.
With employment prospects grim for Ohio and a failing war in Iraq and Abu Ghraib,etc. where did the Republicans find 500,000 new voters for Bush? Are there 500,00 new Ohio voters for Bush?
For example in the county of Butler Bush added 23,000 new votes to Kerry's 10,000 increase over Gore's number. Did this happen? Are there witnesses?
In Clermont 15,000 new rep voters to dems 5,000. To workers on the ground I ask is this how it felt out there?
Were the Bush people fired up in all these little places and no one was paying attention - or are the voting rolls in these counties inflated? 5,000 here, 10,000 there, it adds up.
In Cuyahoga, just over 55% of EV turnout at the polls. Is that what you saw?
Deflate the dem vote a bit here and there, it adds up.
Did dems stay at home or were they out in record numbers?
Did none of the people who voted for Bush last time change their mind after all the blundering and murder?
Here's the 2004 results county by county (sorry - wapo) http://tinyurl.com/5w9ko and 2000 http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/
Go through them - do these results reflect your counties vote? Are these the motivated voters you saw out there last Tuesday>
There has to be a way to know if the vote was real. Right?