Reply #129: Absentee Ballots

[waggawagga]

I don't want to spoil a good theory but did you account for overseas absentee ballots? If you remember there was this period from November 7 to November 26 when ballots from overseas were still being counted (and challenges were being accepted to those already included in the totals). The total number of "late" ballots received for both candidates was just over 2,400.

So if you're contrasting the numbers compiled by the DOE before November 26 and those certified by the counties after this date the discrepancies would make sense (the adjusted totals reflect the addition, and in some cases subtraction, of these overseas ballots).

The last FLSC ruling was sloppy in that it just accepted the numbers they were given (Harris, after November 26, I think, treated these overseas absentees as if they belonged to some different category, the FLSC did this as well). I'll be surprised if the explenation isn't something this simple, though.