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spunkel
02-12-2008, 08:38 PM
how can we ever trust those results when something like this pops up?

The Virginia Stat Board of Elections (https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/election/DATA/2008/F88C865B-87AB-494E-8C2E-599FED2DF7C6/Unofficial/1_s.shtml) shows Huckabee with 141,437 votes at 85,72% reporting

http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/Noname1.jpg (http://s2.supload.com/free/Noname1.jpg/view/)

and politico (http://www.politico.com/) on the other side shows Huckabee with 150,068 votes when 76% reporting ????

http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/Noname-20080212203458.jpg (http://s2.supload.com/free/Noname-20080212203458.jpg/view/)

it just doesn't add up
virginiakid
02-12-2008, 08:56 PM
Your right that is strange and unusual.
nate895
02-12-2008, 09:01 PM
I am going to try to contact the Mike Huckabee campaign with this information.
txrep
02-12-2008, 09:05 PM
Guys,

Calm down. They are unofficial results. The Politico is not an official source of #s. They just use the #s they get from the AP. It is VERY VERY common for news outlets to have different #s than what the SOS is reporting. Even different %'s. Some count the % as % of PRECINCTS, some as % of total vote cast. It is probably something along those lines. There is no conspiracy or fraud. Calm down. Other things to worry about.
nate895
02-12-2008, 09:06 PM
Guys,

Calm down. They are unofficial results. The Politico is not an official source of #s. They just use the #s they get from the AP. It is VERY VERY common for news outlets to have different #s than what the SOS is reporting. Even different %'s. Some count the % as % of PRECINCTS, some as % of total vote cast. It is probably something along those lines. There is no conspiracy or fraud. Calm down. Other things to worry about.

AP gets their numbers from whoever runs the election.
txrep
02-12-2008, 09:08 PM
AP gets their numbers from whoever runs the election.

Not always true. The AP usually has someone calling the #s in from individual counties or from where they count the votes centrally (depending on state or if the SOS or party is counting). Those #s are reported county-by-county if they are counted in that manner. This is why is some states the AP #s vary because different counties are reporting first to the AP or to the SOS.
spunkel
02-12-2008, 09:12 PM
Guys,

Calm down. They are unofficial results. The Politico is not an official source of #s. They just use the #s they get from the AP. It is VERY VERY common for news outlets to have different #s than what the SOS is reporting. Even different %'s. Some count the % as % of PRECINCTS, some as % of total vote cast. It is probably something along those lines. There is no conspiracy or vote fraud. Calm down. Other things to worry about.

only because it's common, doesn't mean it's correct.
and not to be cautious about fraud is simply naive.

the problem is not us asking questions, it's not getting answers.
nate895
02-12-2008, 11:08 PM
Not always true. The AP usually has someone calling the #s in from individual counties or from where they count the votes centrally (depending on state or if the SOS or party is counting). Those #s are reported county-by-county if they are counted in that manner. This is why is some states the AP #s vary because different counties are reporting first to the AP or to the SOS.

So they report different numbers, I don't see how that would cause there to be 150,000 votes for Huckabee, and then 141,000 later on in the count.