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Voting itegrity is actually more serious than the state of the economy. A breakdown in voting integrity will eventually lead to violence
With every illegal, fraudulant vote, a little piece of Democracy dies.
"The New York Times and Washington Post forgets that every bogus vote cast or indicated means that your legitimate vote gets offset by someone who is voting illegally."
Why would you think that these rags care about votes being offset? After all, these scandals are all about voter fraud by the left, so it's only conservative votes that are offset. This is actually a desirable outcome in their worldview.
Questions about the numbers:
What is your source for the registration number?
Is this total number of adults above 18 current alive in Marion County who are registered?
Also, are the population results from a census done on October 6th, 2008?
To the best of my knowledge, the last census was in 2000, and all numbers since then are estimates based on statistics. The further one gets from actual datapoints, the less accurate the numbers become. A difference of 5% seems to be well within the margin of error for such statistics.
Also, how does this compare to 2004 and 2000?
To partially answer Zalph's questions:
Those numbers are for Marion County as a whole, are estimates based on the 2000 census, and are based on State of Indiana forecasts - but they don't jive with US Census figures which put Marion County's population at 865,504 in 2006 (and I would be surprised if the population actually increased during the past two years - the IPS district has been closing schools since the number of school age children is declining at about 1000-1300 students per year. All the growth in Indy has taken place in the hub counties.)
According the US Census, the estimated number of voting age citizens in 2006 was 632,683 - which is about 12500 LESS than the figures cited above. So, registration could actually be at 107% of the population rather than 105%.
If this is true, it sounds like Indiana may be suffering from more registration issues than Ohio.
Yes, but what is the source of the number of registered voters?
Lenin is smiling from his grave !
Indianapolis Star provides the number of registered voters.
Calm down and read this: http://wogblog.net/?p=2437
So all the other stuff ACORN is doing around the country, is that statistical error too?
If you want statistical error, then how about the 2000 elections in Florida. That was decided by 500 odd votes. That's within the margin of error, given the hundreds of thousands of votes cast in Palm Beach, and it's certainly within the margin of error for the state of Florida where millions of votes were cast.
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