Let’s bust a few more voter fraud myths:
This meme has been circulated on Facebook and Twitter:
Politifact has tackled all of these. Let’s start with 59 Philadelphia voter districts counting zero Romney votes in the 2012 general election.
The 59 zones that saw no votes for Romney were not districts, but divisions. There are nearly 1,700 divisions in Philadelphia. The average number of registered voters per division is 616. The division out of the 59 with the lowest turnout counted 139 votes in 2012; the highest was 612. The average number of registered Republicans in these divisions was 17. Read more.
The Ohio claims:
“In 21 districts in Wood County, Ohio, Obama received 100 percent of the votes where GOP inspectors were illegally removed from their polling locations — and not one single vote was recorded for Romney.”
Wood County doesn’t have districts. They are precincts. Neither presidential candidate received 100 percent of the votes in any of the county’s 97 precincts.
“106,258 people in Wood County are registered to vote out of an eligible 98,213.”
PolitiFact Ohio found that the discrepancy is owed to the large population of college kids at Bowling Green. Students register to vote there and later graduate and move away. Wood County showed 62,338 votes cast for a turnout of about 57 percent of registered voters
The Florida claims:
“In St. Lucie County, FL, there were 175,574 registered voters but 247,713 votes were cast.”
This allegation confuses votes with cards. St. Lucie County had a ballot with two pages, meaning voters who completed both pages cast two cards. According to St. Lucie County’s 2012 general election results, the number of cards cast in the 2012 general election was 247,383. It shows that 123,301 votes were cast in the presidential election out of 175,554 registered voters. So the voter turnout for the presidential election was about 70 percent.
“Palm Beach County, FL had a 141% voter turnout in 2012.” County data for the 2012 general election shows there were 605,268 votes cast out of 870,182 registered voters. So, Palm Beach County had almost 70 percent voter turnout.
And the big misrepresentation: “Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote.”
Obama did lose in the only four states that had a photo ID law in effect in 2012, but those states historically vote Republican in presidential elections anyway—Georgia, Indiana, Kansas and Tennessee. The post is flat wrong about Obama winning states that do not require a photo ID. He lost in 20 states that lacked the requirement.
