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[Jacqueline Wilson]

Craig - Are you sure you do not live in Chicago?
On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Craig Kilby wrote:

Larry,

Ahh, but Larry. Statistical analysis is wonderful, but just why did  
Lancaster County, Virginia (where I happen to live) have a 20% voter  
turnout in Tuesday's primary?  The rest of the counties both within  
this congressional district and others which had much more spirited  
races (and I've checked every county) had a 5% turnout (give or take).  
Citing my sources for this information is quite another matter. I  
personally don't see the need for a discussion group to explain it all  
for me. The basic data is to be found at the Virginia State Board of  
Elections. Granted, perhaps the VBE has their data screwed up. If I  
were publishing an article, I would verify the results county by  
county. But, I'm not writing an article.

And while the turnout in Lancaster County was five times higher than  
average/mean/mode/median, the votes fell the same way as the rest of  
the district (comprising about 20 counties and several Independent  
Cities), stretching from Williamsburg to the suburbs of DC. So, the  
sample is not polluted or skewed in any way.

The only thing I can figure out is that Lancaster is one of the few  
(maybe the only) counties that routinely purges its voter rolls. Thus,  
this tells us that in all the other jurisdictions that only reported a  
5% turnout are not purging their rolls, making them rife for mischeif  
this fall. (Which leads me to the cynical conclusion that this is the  
reason they are not purged in the first place. We'd hate to remove all  
those weeds in vacant lots, dead people, cats and dogs from the "every  
vote counts" rolls, wouldn't we?)

Craig



Jacqueline Wilson
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