Residence Hall Voter Registration in OH Universities
Part 4 Wrap Up
This article will aggregate the data from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 as a single data set. This included an analysis of Wooster College, Miami University (Oxford, OH) and Ohio State University.
Let’t get right to it.
The total number undergraduates at all three universities is ~ 65,000. 7,168 are on the voter registration roll that are associated with a residence hall address. That is what this article focuses on.
Look at Chart 1. Even given the fact that some times people do start undergrad later in life, does it make sense that anyone over the age of say 25 would be living in a residence hall? Chart 2 is a similar perspective. Does it make sense that residence hall occupants have a voting history that extends back BEFORE 2019? There are 1,708 people residing at residence halls that voted in the 2016 General Election, for example.
The number of students in a non-voting status of Confirmation is about ~ 2x the number who have an Active status across all 3 universities. Isn’t it time to clean this up?
Look at the vertical red line in Chart 4. The hypothetical situation here is that all votes cast to the right of that line are PERHAPS legitimate because they occurred after the fall of 2019. Why does the voter roll indicate people voting from residence halls prior to 2019? The orange line is the cumulative total from residence halls in this snapshot.
To put it differently, there are about 750 ballots that have been cast from elections going back to 2000 where the CURRENT residence for that voter is a residence hall.
Chart 5 would indicate that only 9 Republicans were registered across 3 Universities which have ~ 65,0000 students? 99.999% of the registrants are in fact Unaffiliated voters? Does that in anyway reflect reality?
Chart 6 indicates that the vast majority of these “students” who are not voting are older than 25 years. Look at the ages on the bottom axis. Now that makes sense and would indicate a very inaccurate or “stale” voter registration database.
The last Chart 7, I find particularly galling. These are the counts of address to residence halls that do not have a mailbox number in the address. Do you suppose these might be prime targets for vote harvesting?
Ohio SoS, you have some work to do.
And finally, look at the data yourself here. Don’t take my word for it. This is all public information.
I will be looking at the state of Florida next…..
Amazing analysis--thank you!
What a wonderful summary of all the pieces laid out in your previous articles! Thank you. But I have a story to tell you about "SoS"s. I know a "Ward Chair" from a political party that "looks over" 32 precincts that consist of about 24,000 records in the state controlled voter "registration" database. To my disbelief, even that Ward Chair has the previous 2 "registrants" (the people that the house was purchased from in 2019, that I was told now reside in TX) on the roll that "Ward Chair" "looks over". Is that because some law or rule that says you can't remove a "participant" of an election until the record has gone without postings of participation over X number of elections? I don't know. I find all these people to have soft excuses for the ridiculous. The rolls have to be maintained by the counties and not touched by the states that love to lose themselves in big numbers whether it's people or dollars. We can't stop the grifters if "certifying" remains within the counties by Commissioners and yet the counties are not responsible or accountable. A deputy clerk told us that they run elections off of a copy of the voter registration database. That makes sense when you see how carefully they are accounting for Same Day Registrations. It also makes sense if you are running 2 sets of books like a crime organization.
I am looking forward to reading about Florida's institutions too. Thank you!