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According to the exit polls conducted by Edison Research, the Democratic Party Senate candidates won three Senate seats that went to the Republican candidate in the computerized vote counts. With these additional seats, the Democratic Party would have regained control of the Senate—51 seats to 48 for the Republican Party and one Independent (caucuses with the Democratic Party).
Edison Research conducted exit polls in only 28 states in the 2016 general elections. Senate seats were contested in 21 of these states. The contests in 20 states featured races between Democratic and Republican Party candidates. Discrepancies between the official vote count and the exit polls favored the Republican Party candidate in 17 states. In 12 of these states the discrepancies were beyond the exit poll margin of error. See table and notes below.
Update: November 17, 2016. Revised table with updated vote counts. A transcription error in the previous table erroneously indicated an exit poll win for the Democratic Party in Florida. Deep apologies. All work has now been triple-checked.
What Can You Do Today?
1) Call anyone you know on the any of the 3 Senate Campaigns MO, PA, WI (personally i would look at the NC race as well — see the comment above) and ask them to get on this now — today — this weekend.
2) Sign the Petition calling for an 11-2016 Election Audit — Demand An Audit Of The 2016 Presidential Election add in your comments do these Senate races also.
for a detailed State by State list of problems please see this story. Also the NC story below needs some sorting out.
North Carolina
Election night’s official returns had Trump beating Clinton by 178,000 votes and the Democratic Senate candidate also losing by roughly the same margin. In other races in the state, however, such as governor and attorney general, the GOP lost and there is a controversial gubernatorial recount underway in which the Republican incumbent, Gov. Pat McCrory, has accused Democrats of voter fraud.
But beyond that predictably partisan finger-pointing, what happened across the state on Election Day has become the focus of serious concern for the election integrity experts. In one Democratic epicenter, Durham County, the state’s voter registration database and e-poll books tied into it were down, prompting long lines, delays and necessitating people fill out provisional ballots. The data was also scrambled, with voter rolls in the wrong locations, people tagged as voting when they had not, and people not on lists even though they had their state registration cards. Those snafus were reported to election protection call centers. Computer experts who have tracked electronic voting issues subsequently noticed the Florida-based contractor who managed North Carolina’s voter registration database was VR Systems. Earlier this fall, CNN reported that an unnamed Florida-based voting system vendor was hacked by the Russians. To the best of these experts’ knowledge, VR is the only Florida-based voting system vendor. It also has contracts in Virginia, New York, Illinois, Indiana, California and other states, according to the company’s website. “Was the shut-down of the electronic poll book system in Durham County the result of a benign malfunction or an intentional hack?” one attorney asked. “And, if it was the latter, who was behind the cyberattack? These questions must be answered immediately, especially if the answers lead to questions about the integrity of the election process in other jurisdictions.”