Update: Florida election turnout vs. presidential votes

The Florida Department of State's Divisions of Elections results page was updated Monday for a number of counties, with turnout totals altered for 42 counties (63% of all counties) and vote totals altered for 5 counties (7.5% of all counties), compared with the data I summarized in my previous post (table 1).

The changes have largely removed the excess votes from the counties that had them, though two counties still have more votes for president recorded than voters voting in the election (Duval and Osceola Counties, for a total of 618 excess votes; table 2). Duval County's last update is recorded as 11/4/04 13:11, while Osceola County's last update is now listed as 11/8/04 09:45. Orange County, one of the counties with extra votes on 11/7/04, now only has 0.09% more voters than votes for president, a value much lower than that found in all the other counties.

Overall a total of 271,137 net voters were added across all counties, while 4,493 votes were added for president. The five counties that added presidential votes each appeared to add them to a mix of candidates (table 3).

I can't find any explanation on the Florida site for why the turnout and vote totals changed, other than that the counties are listed as having updated their data on the county reporting page. The pages are all still titled "1st set of unofficial returns (pursuant to s. 102.141, F.S.)", the same as they were on Sunday, and all counties still report "Y" in the "Final Report" and "Absentees" column. The provisionals page does not list any updates having occured after 11/5/04.

Data tables:

Table 1: Change in voter turnout and presidential votes cast from data obtained ~6pm 11/7/04 to data obtained ~1:15am 11/9/04. All changes were calculated by subtracting the Nov. 7, 2004 value from the Nov. 9, 2004 value.

County	Change in turnout	Change in presidential votes		County	Change in turnout	Change in presidential votes
Alachua	284	279		Lee	0	0
Baker	-11	0		Leon	344	0
Bay	108	0		Levy	0	0
Bradford	0	0		Liberty	0	0
Brevard	0	0		Madison	0	0
Broward	1436	0		Manatee	71	0
Calhoun	0	0		Marion	0	0
Charlotte	0	0		Martin	0	0
Citrus	5	0		Miami-Dade	56169	0
Clay	86	0		Monroe	0	2
Collier	1490	0		Nassau	8	0
Columbia	0	0		Okaloosa	423	0
DeSoto	2	0		Okeechobee	4	0
Dixie	0	0		Orange	1991	0
Duval	0	0		Osceola	18328	0
Escambia	-17624	0		Palm Beach	95279	0
Flagler	20	0		Pasco	5	0
Franklin	0	0		Pinellas	213	0
Gadsden	0	0		Polk	146	0
Gilchrist	5	0		Putnam	4	0
Glades	758	0		Santa Rosa	39	0
Gulf	0	0		Sarasota	349	0
Hamilton	15	0		Seminole	359	0
Hardee	-4	0		St. Johns	0	0
Hendry	3	0		St. Lucie	0	0
Hernando	79308	3247		Sumter	2	0
Highlands	7875	0		Suwannee	17	0
Hillsborough	2481	941		Taylor	0	0
Holmes	0	0		Union	0	0
Indian River	292	0		Volusia	20046	24
Jackson	48	0		Wakulla	0	0
Jefferson	0	0		Walton	36	0
Lafayette	0	0		Washington	2	0
Lake	725	0		Sum	271137	4493

Table 2: Tabulated data of total voter turnout and total votes cast for president in all Florida counties for the November 2, 2004 election. Note that a negative number in the "turnout minus votes" column indicates that there were more votes cast for president than voters voting in the county. Data was obtained at ~1:15am November 9, 2004 from the Florida state site linked to above.

County	Turnout	Presidential votes	T-v	(T-v)/T	Excess Votes
Alachua	111571	111301	270	0.24%
Baker	10048	9955	93	0.93%
Bay	75208	74998	210	0.28%
Bradford	10913	10851	62	0.57%
Brevard	265764	265075	689	0.26%
Broward	707202	704376	2826	0.40%
Calhoun	6006	5961	45	0.75%
Charlotte	80140	79730	410	0.51%
Citrus	69696	69462	234	0.34%
Clay	81473	81230	243	0.30%
Collier	128899	128352	547	0.42%
Columbia	25075	24984	91	0.36%
DeSoto	9534	9495	39	0.41%
Dixie	6472	6440	32	0.49%
Duval	379257	379614	-357	-0.09%	357
Escambia	143559	142990	569	0.40%
Flagler	38552	38475	77	0.20%
Franklin	5973	5930	43	0.72%
Gadsden	21094	20984	110	0.52%
Gilchrist	7047	7012	35	0.50%
Glades	4204	4188	16	0.38%
Gulf	7299	7256	43	0.59%
Hamilton	5131	5079	52	1.01%
Hardee	7281	7246	35	0.48%
Hendry	9813	9774	39	0.40%
Hernando	79308	79079	229	0.29%
Highlands	41871	41491	380	0.91%
Hillsborough	464253	462461	1792	0.39%
Holmes	8349	8298	51	0.61%
Indian River	61613	61321	292	0.47%
Jackson	19898	19797	101	0.51%
Jefferson	7501	7477	24	0.32%
Lafayette	3352	3325	27	0.81%
Lake	124476	123938	538	0.43%
Lee	242434	241433	1001	0.41%
Leon	136573	136314	259	0.19%
Levy	16742	16649	93	0.56%
Liberty	3051	3021	30	0.98%
Madison	8342	8307	35	0.42%
Manatee	143901	143539	362	0.25%
Marion	140321	139644	677	0.48%
Martin	72709	72430	279	0.38%
Miami-Dade	772743	768553	4190	0.54%
Monroe	39629	39527	102	0.26%
Nassau	32748	32664	84	0.26%
Okaloosa	89908	89707	201	0.22%
Okeechobee	12247	12197	50	0.41%
Orange	388095	387752	343	0.09%
Osceola	81917	82178	-261	-0.32%	261
Palm Beach	547340	542835	4505	0.82%
Pasco	191859	190866	993	0.52%
Pinellas	457426	455203	2223	0.49%
Polk	211346	210777	569	0.27%
Putnam	31063	30964	99	0.32%
Santa Rosa	67368	67213	155	0.23%
Sarasota	196291	195530	761	0.39%
Seminole	186537	186115	422	0.23%
St. Johns	86603	86262	341	0.39%
St. Lucie	100374	99913	461	0.46%
Sumter	32000	31837	163	0.51%
Suwannee	15878	15801	77	0.48%
Taylor	8613	8580	33	0.38%
Union	4714	4675	39	0.83%
Volusia	229098	228382	716	0.31%
Wakulla	11820	11763	57	0.48%
Walton	24063	23974	89	0.37%
Washington	10452	10365	87	0.83%
Sum	7622037	7592915	29122		618

Table 3: Comparison of vote totals for each candidate in the five Flordia counties whose presidential vote totals chagned from 11/7/04 to 11/9/04. Numbers listed are the gain in votes the candidate received from 11/7/04 to 11/9/04.

County	Bush / Cheney	Kerry / Edwards	Peroutka / Baldwin	Badnarik / Campagna	Cobb / LaMarche	Harris / Trowe	Brown / Herbert	Nader / Camejo
Alachua	137	139	0	1	0	0	0	2
Hernando	1710	1515	9	4	0	0	0	9
Hillsborough	544	391	0	3	0	0	0	3
Monroe	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Volusia	8	16	0	0	0	0	0	0