Sharkey County explained?

[RBH]

This is the state sample ballot for the election in 2004: http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/2004/2004SampleBallot.pdf

Notice how Cobb and Harris are the top candidates on right side of this ballot?

that could explain how they got so much support (145 votes/5% for Cobb and 94 votes/3% for Harris)

The other counties could have reorganized the ballot slightly, but I wouldn't be stunned if Sharkey county didn't do that.

I think it's close to proven that people vote for the top candidate on the ballot, and some of them voted for the Green Party or the Socialist party.

results by precinct

http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/2004/General/Sharkey.pdf

Anguilla CC - 78% to 10% for Kerry (4% for Cobb and 3% for Harris). 92% to 8% for Thompson [congressional race]

Anguilla TH - 45% to 43% for Bush (4% for Cobb and 4% for Harris). 51% to 47% for LeSueur.

Cary TH - 48% to 31% for Kerry (8% for Cobb and 3% for Harris). 59% to 40% for Thompson.

Delta City CC - 58% to 31% for Kerry (5% for Cobb and 2% for Harris). 62% to 38% for Thompson.

Rolling Fork 1 - 64% to 31% for Bush (2% for Cobb and 1% for Harris). 68% to 31% for LaSueur.

Rolling Fork 2 - 34 to 2 for Kerry (2 votes for Harris, 0 votes for Cobb). 31 to 2 for Thompson

Rolling Fork 3 - 70% to 9% for Kerry (5% for Cobb and 6% for Harris). 88% to 10% for Thompson.

Rolling Fork 4 - 48 to 2 for Kerry. (4 votes for Cobb, 2 votes for Harris). 43 to 5 for Thompson.

Spanish Fort - 52 to 17 for Bush (4 votes for Cobb, 0 for Harris). 49 to 19 for LeSueur.

St. Bayou - 62 to 30 for Bush (4 votes for Cobb, 3 for Harris). 59 to 35 for LaSueur.

Vote totals by precinct (Presidential/Congressional)

Anguilla CC - 228/202
Anguilla TH - 539/468
Cary TH - 527/411
Delta City CC - 368/323
Rolling Fork 1 - 635/603
Rolling Fork 2 - 44/33
Rolling Fork 3 - 512/489
Rolling Fork 4 - 62/48
Spanish Fort - 74/68
St. Bayou - 104/94

Best Precinct for the other candidates
Badnarik: Rolling Fork 3
Cobb: Cary Town Hall
Harris: Rolling Fork 3
Nader: Cary Town Hall
Peroutka: Rolling Fork 3

Random note: Mississippi really sucks when it comes to precinct results, if you haven't clicked, it's a .pdf file that is a scan of a paper where the counties put their results in handwriting.

So yeah.. basically Sharkey County could be blamed on "sh**tty ballot design"

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Heavily black areas always get the sh**tty ballots. In Ohio, in certain precincts, the pollworkers must have given half of the voters the wrong ballot. Jim Crow is still alive and well.

[jimrtex]

Heavily black areas always get the sh**tty ballots. In Ohio, in certain precincts, the pollworkers must have given half of the voters the wrong ballot. Jim Crow is still alive and well.

More likely a case of heavily black Democratic areas intimidating independent poll watchers who might point out that the ballots from two precincts were getting mixed together.

[jimrtex]

This is the state sample ballot for the election in 2004: http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/2004/2004SampleBallot.pdf

Notice how Cobb and Harris are the top candidates on right side of this ballot?

The state sample ballot says specifically that the ballot order is independently set in each county.  Also I wouldn't give much credence to format of a sample ballot that shows all the congressional races.

[jimrtex]

This is the state sample ballot for the election in 2004: http://www.sos.state.ms.us/elections/2004/2004SampleBallot.pdf

Notice how Cobb and Harris are the top candidates on right side of this ballot?

The precincts that are heavy for Cobb and Harris also have pretty heavy voting for Badnarik, Nader, and Peroutka.  The falloff in voting between the Presidential and Congressional election in Cary Town Hall is over 20%, and in Anguilla Town hall it is over 15%.   But in Roaring Fork 3rd, the total dropoff is not that much, but Thompson ran way ahead of Kerry.

So I would suspect some double voting in the presidential race, with a possiblity that a different correction was applied for different precincts.  In some precincts, ballots for Kerry and another candidate were counted twice (resulting in little difference between Kerry and Thompson) but a big difference between presidential and congressional totals.  While in other precincts, the presidential vote was counted for the minor party candidate.  This resulted in similar number of votes cast in the two races, but a big loss for Kerry vs. Thompson.

[Jake]

Heavily black areas always get the sh**tty ballots. In Ohio, in certain precincts, the pollworkers must have given half of the voters the wrong ballot. Jim Crow is still alive and well.

Once again, do whites/Republicans have a monopoly on working in polling stations in areas that are 95% black or is this simply a reflection on those areas?