I don't know what is going on in Philly (haven't followed up and likely won't have time for a bit) but I'm not surprised by the numbers in Madison. You can register at the polls in Wisconsin and it's a very politically active town so you have high turnout to begin with. Not only did the Republicans have a bigger reason to vote with local Paul Ryan in the race (he grew up about 40 miles from Madison), but more impactful, Tammy Baldwin was running against former Governor Tommy Thompson* for Senate. Tammy is openly gay and a favorite in Madison, has been for decades since she first served on the Board of Supervisors, even more so since she was elected into the Assembly in 1993. Madison has a history of voter turn out in excess of 100%, most recently this past summer during the recall election where they had 119% turnout. All that said, I didn't find anything on the turnout of this election exceeding 100% in Madison. Where did you see that?I wasn't necessarilly refering to Florida (which had an amazing 70% voter turnout). Philly had an aweful lot of suspicious voting. 13 wards voting 99% to one candidate?
90% of the precincts in Philly turned out 90% of their voters...odd.
Voter turnout typically averaged 45% of registered voters for the last 50 years. Just sayin...seems odd.
Madison wisconsin also had over 100% participation... plenty of odd goings ons out there.
* no joke, 100% serious here, Tommy Thompson once grabbed my boob during a photo op while at tailgate before the Hall of Fame Bowl in Tampa in 1995. I knew him from a previous job; he had made an appearance at a work event I had arranged the week before. Apparently this wasn't an uncommon thing because the grapevine told me that what he did was called a "half Thompson," a "full Thompson" being a double grab. When it happened I brushed it off as accidental but then I looked at my bro-in-law's face, he was the one taking the photo. He said, and continues to say, it was not an accident.
