I have spent a lot of time in the last week compiling information from the preliminary results of the last county-wide election. I began to notice something. The "Times Counted" was usually higher than the votes "for" or "against" COSI 14 (this also shows up in the other levies, but I didn't think the effect was as dramatic). So I took the time to write down the
"times counted", registered voters, precinct, "against" and "for". I then put these into a database using Microsoft Access, and generated a few reports. This one "Voters Grouped by Towns" I used to generate two calculate fields: "How Many Didn't Vote" (Votes-For-Against), and "Percentage Who Didn't Vote In COSI Levy" (Votes-For-Against/Votes). The five "top" precincts that had the largest percentage of voters that didn't vote either way on COSI were:
| Precinct | Votes | Levy | Against | For | How Many Didn't Vote | Percentage Who Didn'tVote | |
| Tol 6K | 44 | COSI 14 | 11 | 28 | 5 | 11.38% | |
| Tol 13G | 46 | COSI 14 | 13 | 28 | 5 | 10.87% | |
| Tol 8D | 56 | COSI 14 | 18 | 32 | 6 | 10.71% | |
| Tol 13L | 118 | COSI 14 | 36 | 71 | 11 | 9.32% | |
| Tol 13B | 54 | COSI 14 | 16 | 33 | 5 | 9.26% | |
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