What are the real numbers?
by cracklins
Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 08:17:13 PM PDT
What do the vote totals reflect? Are these totals for today's votes or do they incorporate the early votes for states that offered that option? What about absentee ballots - are they counted? Do these "calls" reflect estimates for absentees and early votes?
For example, Miami-Dade county has 94% reporting with a total of about 650,000 votes (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/FL/P/00/county.001.html#12086), but does that include early votes? Absentee votes?
That sees too small a number.
Could the early votes cause a swing (if they were not included)?
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