Detailed analysis of effects of apparent vote machine fraud and voter suppression in minority precincts in Palm Beach County: Based on voter reported irregularities to the EIRS election hotline(www.voteprotect.org)

A detailed analysis of the votes and voter turnout in Palm Beach County by precinct for 2000 and 2004 was carried out, after matching up the precincts for 2000 and 2004 based on data from the county elections office. Data from the County Elections web site was used both for votes by precinct, demographic information by precinct, and precinct matchup for 2000 vs 2004. Due to a redistricting in 2002 that produced some precinct boundary changes, it was not possible to match all precincts between 2000 and 2004.

Vote irregularity reports for Palm Beach county from amongst the over 800 such reported by voters in Palm Beach county to the EIRS voter hotline

data base were compiled and analyzed to assess the extent that precincts with documented touchscreen fraud(vote switching from Kerry to Bush) and systematic dirty tricks/long lines/machine problems were a factor in affecting vote totals compared to precincts without such known problems.

Since only a relatively small portion of voters had the knowledge and motivation to report irregularities, only a small portion of total irregularities were reported, but Florida had the largest number of reported irregularities of any state and the thousands of reported irregularities serve as a good paper trail of election fraud and irregularities in the 2004 election.

http://www.flcv.com/fraudpat.html

The analysis found that precincts with reported machines that were switching votes from Kerry to Bush had a significantly larger swing of the Dem vote percentage between 2000 and 2004 than the average for precincts without reported vote switching, with a swing of 7.0% on average.

The analysis found that precincts with reported long lines or machine problems had a significant reduction in official vote turnout from the

2000 to the 2004 elections, with a swing of 7.8% on average for such precincts. It seems ironic that precincts with extremely long lines correlated with extremely low official turnout compared to other precincts. This would seem to imply that the low official turnout was due to the electoral system rather than voter apathy. This consistently was found to be in minority precincts.

Summary of precinct data and statistics for affected areas:

http://www.flcv.com/pbvsum.html

Summary of all precinct data and statistics for Palm Beach county precincts:

http://www.flcv.com/pbvdata.html

The official vote results were found to be extremely questionable statistically based on the voter registration data and exit poll data by university researchers such as Hout, Freeman, etc. http://www.flvc.com/flavi04.html

And the authors own similar study http://www.flcv.com/fla04EAS.html

Exit poll data showed that a higher percentage of Democratic voters voted for Kerry in 2004 than for Gore in 2000, over 90%, and that Independent voters preferred Kerry by a significant margin. But while the Democrats had an 8 to 1 advantage in new registrations in Palm Beach County between 2000 and 2004 and had a major get out the vote campaign, the Republican vote total increased more than the Democratic vote total. Similar occurred in neighboring Broward and Dade counties and in other touchscreen counties.