Now, quite a bit of work is being done around these parts regarding Ohio numbers, and I'm thankful for that. But, hey, let's take a look at Florida numbers, just for fun.
The Florida Department of State has posted its first set of unofficial returns from every county. Every one has included counts of absentee ballots, and every one is marked as a final report, according to the data on the site. Now, I'm not sure about that, but let's accept it for now.
Turnout is reported for every county except Hernando (which inexplicably reports 0 turnout). Now, let's assume that every registered voter in Hernando county (all 109,656 of them) voted. That gives us total voter turnout of 7,460,556. Let's compare that with the reported total numbers of votes for Senate, President, and Amendment 5, the amendment receiving the most total votes of the 8 offered (number of votes in excess of maximum turnout in parentheses):
for Senate: 7,409,542 (-51,014)
for Amendment 5: 7,277,832 (-182,724)
for President: 7,586,995 (126,439)
Something is wrong here. A bit more below the fold...
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