RE: Election 2002 - Story on dems losing by same # of votes?

[wyldwolf]

There were statistics after Nov. 2002 about several democrates losing their races by the exact same number of votes (something like 8,116 votes.)

Anyone remember? Anyone have links?

Thank you in advance.

[mjb4]

1. 18181....

was the number in TX of the margin for atleast 3 races in 3 different counties. A school board election was lost by 999 votes recently, the difference is just to convenient for programmers..I should know I am a programmer.

Search the internet for 18181 and elections

[wyldwolf]

3. Thanks! The number escaped my memory...

[booksenkatz]

4. It's my understanding

that ALL THREE races were in the SAME county, Comal County, if I'm not mistaken. If that is true, then that is a whopper of a coincidence.

:tinfoilhat:

Edited to add following article:
(Link no longer works, but I'll post anyway)

Winning vote totals uncanny - everyone gets 18,181 votes
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By Roger Croteau
San Antonio Express-News
http://www.mysanantonio.com/spec...xlc=860675

Web Posted : 11/08/2002 12:00 AM

NEW BRAUNFELS — What are the odds?
Let's just say it's the proverbial "astronomical."

Comal County elections officials noticed an extreme oddity after the final votes were tallied in Tuesday's general election.

County Judge Danny Scheel received 18,181 votes in his victory over Lois Duggan.

Republican state Sen. Jeff Wentworth also got 18,181 votes in Comal County in his win over Democrat Joseph Sullivan and Libertarian Rex Black.

To make matters even stranger, Comal County also gave Republican Carter Casteel exactly 18,181 votes in her victory over Democrat Virgil Yanta in the race for District 73 state representative.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[newyawker99]

6. patsified

Per DU copyright rules
please post only 4
paragraphs from
the news source.

Thank you.


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[booksenkatz]

8. Am not sure if that's the whole thing

I got it from a fellow's post at an old news forum, but link doesn't work, so was unable to check. Will keep it in mind for the future (I seldom post any articles).

Thx.

Also: what is the procedure if a link no longer works, but you want to impart the info? If I had only posted the first 4 sentences, then the info that was requested would have been incomplete...?

Oops, think I just got my answer: don't post it at all, LOL!

[Booberdawg]

2. There's something here on that

I've seen it mentioned in the Bev Harris stuff. Do a search on her stuff or, i think it's DemActivist?? that is involved with that too. You'd find the names of DU'ers involved in that by searching BevHarris

[The Night Owl]

5. The three 18,181 counts happened in Comal County, Texas...

You can check out the actual results on Comal's own election result webpage...

http://www.co.comal.tx.us/election_results2002.htm

Scary stuff.

[NoKingGeorge]

7. 18181 = ahaha

smartass programmer used 18181 to reconcile with ahaha.
Laughing at folks..
Also, on Bev's site there is reference to a software patch from the FTP site that is called Rob.Georgia was that patch applied on Georgia machines. Their Governor is promising to look into software. I called his office and the guy answering said that yeh if the governor said it than he was going to do it. I told the guy that it must be a good feeling to work there for these kinds of things,he said yeh, the Governor is a good guy with those type issues.