Tom Barrett is whining Milwaukee is not being given enough ballots by the county for the presidential election. The county is printing 679000 ballots. To put this in perspective:
According to the Journal Sentinel, 94643 ballots were cast in the September primary. 679000 ballots means every voter from September could cast 7 ballots. According to Charlie Sykes, total votes cast in the presidential election in 2000 was 245670. The county is supplying 2.76 ballots per voter.
To estimate the number of voters in the next election, you look back at the last couple of elections at the numbers and, based upon the decline/gain, estimate the number of voters that will participate in the next election. Usually its a decline, but Democrat efforts at increasing turnout (no matter how questionable) caused an increase the last time.
The city's election board does not have the numbers from 1996 on their website, but the state election board (and the Wisconsin Blue Book) gives the county wide number at 365387 total. The State Election Board reports 433537 voted in 2000 in Milwaukee County an 18.7% increase. Based upon that stunning and unlikely to repeat increase, the most the City of Milwaukee can expect is 291491 (245670 x 1.187) voters. This means the county is printing 2.3 ballots per voter.
Barrett is requesting a stunning 38.3% more ballots than the county is willing to print or 3.2 ballots per voter, begging the question, just how many times are the Democrats going to stuff the ballot box?
