Looking for past thread on Ohio precinct suppression

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Sometime around last weekend, there was a fantastic, well documented thread on the suppression of precincts over the past several elections in Ohio.

There were great analysis on how the precinct suppression affected the vote in mainly Democratic areas.

My browser crashed and lost all the pages before I could save them. I've been trying for a couple of days to find the thread, but I think it will be easier to call on the collective memory of fellow DUers.

I need it for an information package I'm putting together for the media here in France.

TIA

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1. It was probably one of Rich's

http://web.northnet.org/minstrel/alpage.htm

Or it could have been Liddle's from USCountVotes:

http://uscountvotes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=43

If it was a PDF, it was probably the above one. It's linked off that summary page.

[BushSpeak]

2. Found: the article on Ohio precinct suppression

Thanks for the links. I've been following Richard Hayes Phillips analysis since the election. Actually, it wasn't on DU after all, but I think you'll find the info interesting?

There is so much information spinning in my head that I guess I should take a vacation, before I blow a fuse.
Questioning Ohio

"Of Ohio’s 88 counties, 20 suffered a significant reduction — shutting at least 20 percent (or at least 30) of their precincts. Most of those counties have Republicans serving as Board of Elections director, including the four biggest: Cuyahoga, Montgomery, Summit, and Lucas.

Those 20 counties went heavily to Gore in 2000, 53 to 42 percent. The other 68 counties, which underwent little-to-no precinct consolidation, went exactly the opposite way in 2000: 53 to 42 percent to Bush.

In the 68 counties that kept their precinct count at or near 2000 levels, Kerry benefited more than Bush from the high turnout, getting 24 percent more votes than Gore did in 2000, while Bush increased his vote total by only 17 percent.

But in the 20 squeezed counties, the opposite happened. Bush increased his vote total by 22 percent, and Kerry won just 19 percent more than Gore in 2000.

If the reduced number of precincts in those counties accounts for the difference, it cost Kerry about 45,000 votes."