Comments on Advance Indiana™: Ballard's Win By The Numbers

Cleared up!! Brizzi is worse than you even descri...

2007-11-12T06:37:00.000-05:00

Cleared up!! Brizzi is worse than you even described.....certainly not a moderate...idiot is more like it.

Uh, news flash, 4:31...neither Brizzi or Ballard i...

2007-11-11T22:51:00.000-05:00

Uh, news flash, 4:31...neither Brizzi or Ballard is a moderate.

Ballard is best-defined as a populist. In other words, a county chairman's worst enemy. (Either chairman)

Brizzi is best defined as an opportunistic a---hole.

Now then. Did we clear that up?

I dont think that there is any shady voter registr...

2007-11-11T21:02:00.000-05:00

I dont think that there is any shady voter registration conspiracy going on.....we live in a mobile society.......

There's always been highly intensive voter registr...

2007-11-11T17:35:00.000-05:00

There's always been highly intensive voter registration in my precinct which has numerous rental units. Folk register but move out after a while - the names never get purged off the voter rolls. Nothing nefarious or shady!

Gary, I think one thing that is getting lost in al...

2007-11-11T16:31:00.000-05:00

Gary,

I think one thing that is getting lost in all this is that this is a huge victory for moderates. In 2004 we were told to go home because the real way to win elections was to cater to the base. Now in Marion County at least we've seen two moderates (Brizzi and Ballard) win in a row. I think there is something to be said for that.

My own precinct has more registered voters than hu...

2007-11-11T16:15:00.000-05:00

My own precinct has more registered voters than humans counted in the Census

How does that work, Wilson? How many of thos epeople are registered 3 or 4 times, thanks to some shady election processes?

Voting percentages are still somewhat relevant.Of ...

2007-11-11T13:51:00.000-05:00

Voting percentages are still somewhat relevant.

Of course, the only truly important number is total voters and for whom they cast those votes. And by any measure, Center didn't perform as it should've.

Not that they ever have...but this year was even worse than most.

Sir Hailstone, per my 10:35 comment, Wilson is cor...

2007-11-11T10:55:00.000-05:00

Sir Hailstone, per my 10:35 comment, Wilson is correct because the voters to be purged are still on the inactive list waiting to be purged under the SVRS.

In my case, Wilson is partially correct (gasp!). H...

2007-11-11T10:44:00.000-05:00

In my case, Wilson is partially correct (gasp!). Hell, I stated before I'm registered twice to vote at two separate locations.

One registration has my name spelling transposed.

When I tried to do the "right thing" I was told "it will eventually drop off if you don't vote with that name and address".

Let me correct myself on the voter purge, those vo...

2007-11-11T10:35:00.000-05:00

Let me correct myself on the voter purge, those voters I said were purged were actually placed on an "inactive list" to be purged after 3 years. So I guess they're still counted even though they aren't on the active list, which would make the turnout percentage seem lower than it really was.

The Star analyis notes there were 15,000 more vote...

2007-11-11T10:31:00.000-05:00

The Star analyis notes there were 15,000 more votes cast this year than 4 years ago, which it attributes to new voter registrations. I do recall a report a couple of weeks ago that there had been a significant number of new registrations leading up to this year's election.

anon 10:14, I think the person who made that comme...

2007-11-11T10:28:00.000-05:00

anon 10:14, I think the person who made that comment is basing it on the color-coded map from the Star. You can see a small island of red among the light blue hue south and west of the I-65/I-70 split in the downtown area.

"Be very wary of turnout percentages. There hasn't...

2007-11-11T10:25:00.000-05:00

"Be very wary of turnout percentages. There hasn't been a purge of voters for many years."

Wilson, you are totally wrong. With the implemenation of the Secretary of State's new statewide voter database, there were thouands of voters purged from the rolls in Marion County in the past couple of years.

Could you give me the ward and precinct number of ...

2007-11-11T10:14:00.000-05:00

Could you give me the ward and precinct number of htat precinct "in the middle of downtown" that voted 60% for Ballard..........I question that but I can be convinced with facts.

Turnout percentages are meaningless. There has not...

2007-11-11T10:13:00.000-05:00

Turnout percentages are meaningless. There has not been a purge for years and there are names of voters who moved from Indiana 5 years ago and people who died years ago especially in areas with lots of apartments.

Be very wary of turnout percentages. There hasn't ...

2007-11-11T10:04:00.000-05:00

Be very wary of turnout percentages. There hasn't been a purge of voters for many years. My own precinct has more registered voters than humans counted in the Census (which includes approx. 25% folk under 18yo). People get registered and then move out but the names remain on the poll book seemingly eternally.

So be wary of turnout percentages!

The downtown 60% Ballard precinct is highly gentir...

2007-11-11T09:37:00.000-05:00

The downtown 60% Ballard precinct is highly gentirified.

The 7th district overlay would show some startling results--but it's still Democratic.

Subtract the excess GOP straight-ticket votes from the decreased D straight ticket votes (11,000-6,000) and you magically have almost exactly--the Bart loss margin.

It's clear what happened. Black clergy's hold on their congregants regarding electoral matters, has been slipping for years. And Center voted about 18% or so--far below the county average, and far below the northern township averages. Some Center heavy D precicts voted 10%. Pitiful.

Center does its job, and Bart wins. Center doesn't, Bart loses.

Who didn't know that?

I noticed the precinct right in the middle of down...

2007-11-11T09:13:00.000-05:00

I noticed the precinct right in the middle of downtown voted more than 60% for Ballard.

It would be interesting to overlay that map over t...

2007-11-11T08:35:00.000-05:00

It would be interesting to overlay that map over the 7th congressional district and see how the votes would total up ? There are a lot of republican votes that fall outside the 7th.