While working on my Ohio Purge Watch project, I wanted to determine an efficient way for someone to search for their voter registration record without having to type in too much information. The goal was to find a field combination of hopefully no more than 3 fields (2 of those of course being first and last name) that would provide few enough results so they could be displayed on a single page.

I opted to try a zip code, last name, and first name combination, but needed to find out if this would get the number of search results down to a manageable 1-page selection. Running a query which counted voters grouped in such a way, I discovered there is one zip code in Ohio, 44654, which currently has 24 men named David Miller who are registered to vote.

One would assume this anomaly would occur in one of the more highly-populated urban areas of the state, but you’d be wrong. Millersburg, located in Eastern Ohio, has a population of around 3,100 people.

Odds are, if you visit Millersburg and ask any of the residents if they know David Miller, they’ll answer “yes”!