Vote tallies - am I just being dense?

[Rjnerd]

There are reports of total turnout of aprox 120 million. Yet, if you look at the pop vote total, you only see 113 million. Where are the other 7 million? (twice the popular vote difference).

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[ochazuke]

1. Maybe some voters didn't vote on president

but voted on governor, senator, congressman or some issues.

[Rjnerd]

3. More than 5% skipping a presidential vote?

Sounds pretty unlikely to me.

[jvaska]

2. I've been thinking the same thing.

Something isn't right.

[vpigrad]

4. The votes were eaten...

by the machines. I'm working on a story now for the local paper about all the votes my wife didn't see count on the RJ Reynolds Votetronics machines. Some of the machines didn't register a single vote yesterday.

[Rjnerd]

6. And these wern't machines that died before opening?

I think your story should be in more than the local paper.

I assume that Bev at Black box voting will get a copy as soon as it is in draft?

[Rjnerd]

5. More differences:

Turnout in California estimated at 12 million. PV total for CA is 9.5 million. I don't know how accurate the turnout number is, but that almost 25% absention if true.