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Meeker
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« on: January 02, 2008, 12:09:14 PM »

Kerry: 50% (1560)
Bush: 36% (1120)
Cobb: 5% (145)
Calero: 3% (94)
Badnarik: 2% (74)
Nader: 2% (52)
Peroutka: 2% (48)

If you add that up, you get 13.4% for third parties (9.4% for left-leaning ones alone). What makes this county in Mississippi so third party friendly?
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« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2008, 12:12:00 PM »

Faulty voting machines.
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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2008, 12:53:03 PM »


Or else faulty ballots.
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« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2008, 02:15:44 PM »

We've had several threads on the issue before. This is the best one: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=14140.0
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2008, 03:03:02 PM »

I don't have much to add to my original post, other than it wasn't an inverted number.  Oh, and Mississippi's official elections recordkeeping is incredibly crappy.

There wasn't much precinct division for third-party showing:

Anguilla Community Center: 12%
Anguilla Town Hall: 12%
Cary Town Hall: 20%
Delta City Community Center: 11%
Rolling Fork 2: 18%
Rolling Fork 3: 21%
Spanish Fort Voting Building: 7%
Rolling Fork 1: 4%
Rolling Fork 4: 19%
Straight Bayou: 12%

Not to advance conspiracy theories, but:



There seems to be some correlation there.  (Although I wager the correlation has to do with being black vs. white, which just happens to create an identical correlation there.)
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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2008, 11:24:02 PM »

Third parties did very well in certain inner city voting places in Cleveland, OH where multiple precincts had the same voting place. The order of the candidates was randomized by precinct, and they gave the wrong ballot to many people. Perhaps something similar happened in Sharkey County.
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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2008, 07:24:32 AM »

I seem to recall in one of these Sharkey County threads a few years back, someone posted a sample ballot from the county, and it was pretty confusing.
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