Posted on 08/27/2016 11:03:37 AM PDT by Mariner
The political team at the Florida Chamber of Commerce has come across a remarkable trend this campaign season: A huge spike in mail voting by people who rarely vote in primary elections.
Almost half of the mail ballots returned so far for Tuesday’s primary election have come from Floridians who voted in either one or zero of the past four primary elections. That means a big, decisive chunk of the vote will come from people who have not been polled, and potentially not courted, targeted or accounted for by countless campaigns across the state.
“This is huge,” said Marian Johnson, senior vice president of political strategy for the Florida Chamber and one of the foremost experts on Florida campaigns and politics. “I can envision election night when the votes are counted that certain people win that nobody thought had a chance, and that being attributed to this trend.”
As of Thursday morning, more than 855,000 primary ballots had been cast by mail. More than a quarter of those votes came from Floridians who had not voted in the last four primaries and another 20 percent from people who voted in just one of the last four primaries.
In other words, these are not “likely voters” surveyed by most pollsters or targeted by sophisticated political campaigns. The trend applies to Democrats and Republicans alike and across the state, said Johnson, who was shocked when she first spotted the trend developing weeks ago.
“The first thing I did was go back to my data people and said, 'Are you sure you ran this right?’ ”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
“But a nation that elected Obama twice is in sad shape”
I’ll never be convinced that President Buckwheat won the election by a free and fair vote. The SOB won via massive voter fraud.
It’s the same dichotomy we see in poll numbers that Buckwheat has a 51% approval rating, while 70% of Americans say the country is on the track. Logically, these numbers can’t be squared.
That is a lot of vote fraud but possible I guess
Absolutely infuriating
Aug 30th. Vote Kelli Ward!
The presidential primary was in March. This is the “regular” primary, for everything else.
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