Reply #1: There certainly are some weird numbers in Warren.... [View All]

and you point out some additional weirdnesses.

I too, grabbed the presidential race pages from the SoS site, at numerous time on election nite and subsequent days, as well as the Warren County canvass results, of which there were only two sets published Nov 3 at 143pm and Nov 15 at 1252pm.

In spite of the SoS site indicating 1465 provisional ballots, they later published another page showing 1952 provisionals issued and 1625 accepted in Warren County.

I believe that some of the other differences in totals lie with the number of folks who supposedly went to the polls, waited patiently in line, and although they cast a ballot, they didn't select ANY presidential candidate. I'm showing 1070 of those on the initial results and 1093 by the final results.

In looking at the Warren County precinct by precinct results, there are many instances where the increase in votes for the candidates exceeds the increase in total ballots cast. Let's see, if each of three candidates is given one additional vote, you'd expect there to be at least three additional ballots counted, wouldn't you? After all, it wouldn't be right to have votes for two different candidates on the same ballot? I think I counted at least 15 precincts that must have had THAT problem.

What's a certified vote? I don't know, but in some cases it appears that a certified total is when a board of elections say "Enough of this counting nonsence - let's just decide that we've done our jobs properly and go home. We'll all just sign-off on these numbers and call it a night - after all, if WE can't get them to add up no one else can either"

Don't know if this helps or not, but thanks for the opportunity to vent.

HG ;-)